Melissa Zeiger

Associate Professor of English

Ph.D., Cornell University

205 Sanborn House
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755

Melissa.F.Zeiger@Dartmouth.EDU

Academic interests

Immigrant Writing; Feminist Theory; Politics of the Love Lyric; Modern and Contemporary Poetry; Women's Poetry; Elizabeth Bishop; the Poetry of Illness; AIDS and Breast Cancer Literature and Theory; Elegy; Genre; Feminist Criticism; African-American Women's Fiction; Cultural Memory Theory

Courses

Composition, The Politics of the Ghost Story, Modern Poetry, Intro to Criticism and Theory, Odi et Amo: The Love-Lyric Tradition, Gender and Memory, Modern Elegies, Elizabeth Bishop, Immigrant Women's Writing in America, Immigrant Women's Writing in America, American Women's Poetry

Selected Publications

Beyond Consolation: Death, Sexuality, and the Changing Shapes of Elegy. (Cornell University Press, September 1997)
"Beyond Mourning and Melancholia: AIDS Elegies," Oxford Quarterly (Spring 1997): 51-72.