Marleen Rensen is a senior lecturer in Modern European Literature at the University of Amsterdam. She specializes in literary engagement and life writing and has a particular interest in the lives of French and German artists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

• 01. Introduction: Amsterdam in Diaries and Life Writing Coming of Age 02. Her Visual Diary: How Anne Frank’s Picture Walls Evoke the War Lives of Other Women from Amsterdam 03. Coming of Age in Amsterdam: From Els Eilers to Els Borst 04. Surinamese Diaspora and Belonging in Amsterdam: Childhood Memories of Ruud Beeldsnijder Belonging 05. Jane Hoyake’s Amsterdam Diaries: Life in a City under Siege 06. Roaming Amsterdam in Search of Stability: Postwar Arrivals from Indonesia Represented in Diaries 07. Art, Love, Freedom: The Amsterdam Diaries of Işık Tüzüner Routes and Routines 08. Fetching Dogs from Depositions: Examining Canine Agency in Early Modern Conflict Stories 09. The Amsterdam Diaries of Netje Asser and Hanna da Costa-Belmonte 10. Clearing the Deck: The Diaries of Skipper Adriaan Doorneveld Digital lives 11. Diaries, Amsterdam and the Post-digital 12. Mapping Urban Spaces Through Personal Stories: Story Maps and Deep Maps of Amsterdam 13. Mapping Lives: The Amsterdam Diaries Time Machine Creative Section 14. Part 1. The Many Lives of an Amsterdam Bicycle; Part 2. Reflection: Life Writing and Creative Writing 15. The Mega-Mosaics of Fabrice Hünd 16. Exploring Urban Lives of Amsterdam through Mezrab: Empowerment, Emplacement, and Community Building via Storytelling 17. Amsterdam through a (Trans)national Gaze: A Conversation with Life Writing Author Alejandra Ortiz 18. Archives and Other Stories of the Self or the Importance of Being Earnest