From the emergence of self-portraiture in the early Renaissance to Instagram and TikTok, humans have contemplated, manipulated, and shared representations of the self in many forms. In this course we will examine and reflect on what it means to represent the self and how we represent ourselves publicly in art, literature, and media. We will investigate the history of the “selfie” and determine its current use while hypothesizing its future use and place in society. We will observe and assess “autofictional” representations through the lenses of philosophy, psychology, and art, in addition to literary studies. French author Serge Doubrovsky, in his novel Fils (1977), coined the term “autofiction” to talk about the fusion of autobiography and fiction in writing. We will focus our analysis on these “literary selfies” in the genre of contemporary autofiction. Students will generate their own autofiction as one of the writing projects in this course.