Ghosts in the Closet: Catastrophizing and Spectral Disability in Anne Charlotte Robertson’s <i>Apologies</i> by Taryn Marie Ely

“…Anne Charlotte Robertson, who died in 2012, was a Super 8 experimental filmmaker whose primarily diaristic films record her experience with a diagnosis of manic depression and the corresponding nervous breakdowns. …”
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Bringing sexy back: Reclaiming the body aesthetic via self-shooting by Katrin Tiidenberg

“…The technologies of the self activated through diaristic blogging and selfie sharing, along with the empowerment from interactions with peers take bloggers on a path of sexual awakening and reintroduce them to their own bodies. …”
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Silence, dissent, and affective relations in the juvenile diaries of Eva Knatchbull-Hugessen (1861–1895) by Gleadle, K

“…Exploring juvenile life writing, it will be suggested, requires a new archival hermeneutics in which the meanings of archives and their construction can reveal hidden dynamics as well as pointing to the cultural agency of young diarists.…”

The perceived impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health and wellbeing of care-experienced people by Taylor, J, Pooley, S, Canning, R, O'Higgins, A, Bowes, L

“…A minority of respondents referred to their care status in their diaries. Most diarists presented their experiences as being common to other, non-care-experienced, people. …”

The Active Follower: What Young Voters Look for in Political Leaders and Parties by Lucia Botindari, Stephen D. Reicher

“…The first part, an in-depth thematic investigation of two diaries, shows that the diarists do not passively accept the constructions used by politicians, but rather deliberate both over their own identities and the way that politicians relate to these identities. …”
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Attaching metabolic expenditures to standard occupational classification systems: perspectives from time-use research. by Deyaert, J, Harms, T, Weenas, D, Gershuny, J, Glorieux, I

“…Time-use data can be used to study PAEE by assigning MET values to daily activities using the Ainsworth Compendium of Physical Activities. Although most diarists record their daily activities accurately and in detail, they are only required to record their paid working hours, not the job-specific tasks they undertake. …”

Euroopa-ihalusest taasiseseisvusperioodi autobiograafiates / European Identifications in Post-Soviet Estonian Life Writing by Leena Kurvet-Käosaar

“…In Jaan Kaplinski’s confessional epistolary address to the author’s Polish father who died in the Gulag shortly after the birth of his son and in Õnnepalu’s semi-fictional diaristic text emerging from an obligation to write during a stay in a writers’ residence in Belgium in Vollezele, the question of subjectivity and (European) identity do not unravel primarily via an emphasis on the ruptures of the period of occupation. …”
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Polyphony and counterpoint: Mechanisms of seduction in the diaries of Helen Hessel and Henri Pierre Roché by Catherine du Toit

“…Henri Pierre Roché (1879–1959), the author of Jules et Jim, has been called a general introducer, an exemplary amateur, a collector of women and art and one of the most prolific diarists and active lovers in recorded history. Author of a collection of vignettes about Don Juan, Roché was fascinated with the figure of the seducer and in his twenties planned to devote his life to the creation of a body of work which would examine moral, intellectual, social and sexual relations between women and men. …”
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