Ivy Schweitzer

Professor of English, Women's Studies Program

PhD American Literature, Brandeis University 1983

Sanborn 217
Phone:   646-2930

My new book, "Perfecting Friendship," is available from University of North Carolina Press. Please go to http://uncpress.unc.edu/books/ T-8022.html for a description and order form.

Ivy.Schweitzer@Dartmouth.edu

My fields of specialization are American literature, especially early American studies, women's literature and culture and feminist studies. I teach interdisciplinary courses in the Women's and Gender Studies, Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies Programs, which bring together literature, critical theory, and various media. My goal is to encourage critical thinking about the past, present and future through the examination of culture.

Courses

Introduction to Literary Theory (Eng 15), Early American Literature (Eng 39), Nineteenth Century American Fiction (Eng 42), American Poetry (Eng 40), Women, "Race," and Writing (Eng 72); Contemporary Issues in Feminism (WS 21), Psychology, Society and Literature: Mothers and Daughters (CL 46), Performing National Identities: Blacks and Jews in US Culture (JWST 80).

Selected Publications

• "Foster's Coquette: Resurrecting Friendship from the Tomb of Marriage," Arizona Quarterly, (forthcoming).
• "The Canary in the Mine," September 11 Roundtable, Signs, special issue on Cultural Memory, vol. 28, 1 (Autumn) 2002.
• Heath Anthology of American Literature, Period Editor, 1500-1800, 4th edition, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001.
• The Literatures of Colonial America: An Anthology, co-edited with Susan Castillo, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2001.
• "Women's Studies Online: Cyberfeminsm or Cyberhype." Women's Studies Quarterly: Women Confronting the New Technologies. 29 (3/4 Fall/Winter 2001): 187-217.
• "Salutary Decouplings: the Newest New England Studies," American Literary History 13 (3 Fall 2001): 578-591.
• "The Mammy and the Mummy: Cultural Imaginary and Interracial Coalition," Mothers and Daughters: Connection, Empowerment, and Transformation, eds. Sharon Abbey and Andrea O'Reilly, Lanham: Rowan and Littlefield, May 1999: 121-39.
• The Work of Self-Representation: Lyric Poetry in Colonial New England. University of North Carolina Press, 1991.