Lives Reinvented: New Theoretical, Critical and Creative Directions in Contemporary Biofiction offers a public space for studying the ethics, aesthetics, historicity, evolution, and diversity of contemporary biofiction in different formats and styles, ranging from strictly theoretical research and practical case studies to postgraduate seminars, international conferences, teaching resources, and social engagement activities.

A fertile neologism in today’s critical parlance, biofiction is generally understood as the reinventive and transformative praxis of reconstructing historical figures as fictional characters and reimagining their lives in novels, short stories, plays, poems, films, TV series, and other genres –whether hegemonic or popular. The general scope of our research covers any forms of contemporary biofiction produced originally in English and published in Anglophone countries, although other cultural traditions often enter into our critical practice for the sake of fostering an authentic spirit of interdisciplinarity. Our chronological purview stretches from the early twentieth century to the present, yet it is the latest decades from the 1990s onwards that become particularly significant in the study of biofictional narratives for their proliferation, diversification, and popularity.