Kate Douglas is an Associate Professor in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University (South Australia). She is the author of Contesting Childhood: Autobiography, Trauma and Memory (Rutgers, 2010) and the co-author of Life Narratives and Youth Culture: Representation, Agency and Participation (Palgrave, 2016; with Anna Poletti). She is the co-editor (with Laurie McNeill) of Teaching Lives: Contemporary Pedagogies of Life Narratives (Routledge 2017), (with Kylie Cardell) of Trauma Tales: Auto/biographies of Childhood and Youth (Routledge 2014) and (with Gillian Whitlock) Trauma Texts (Routledge, 2009). Ashley Barnwell is the Ashworth Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. Her research focuses on memory, emotion, and family storytelling. Her work has been published in journals such as Life Writing,　a/b: Auto/Biography Studies,　Memory Studies, Cultural Sociology, and Emotion, Space & Society. She is currently co-authoring a book (with Joseph Cummins),　Reckoning with the Past: Family Historiographies in Postcolonial Australian Literature, (Routledge 2018).