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Ivy Schweitzer

Ph.D., Brandeis University

Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies (chair)

Recent Scholarship:

Perfecting Friendship: Politics and Affiliation in Early American Literature (University of North Carolina Press, 2006).

The Heath Anthology of American Literature, general editor, Paul Lauter, 5th edition, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006; editor of Volume A, 1500 to 1800.

"For Gloria AnzaldĂșa: Collecting America, Performing Friendship," PLMA: Publication of the Modern Language Association 121 (1 January) 2006: 285-91.

Companion to The Literatures of Colonial America: An Anthology (33 critical essays), co-edited with Susan Castillo, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2005.

"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 Literature of Colonial America: An Anthology, co-edited with Susan Castillo, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2001.

"Women's Studies Online: Cyberfeminism or Cyberhype?" Women's Studies Quarterly: Women Confronting the New Technologies, 29 (3/4 Fall/Winter 2001).

Interests:

Gender and the politics of cultural representation
Women's literature
Poetry and culture
Early American and US women's writing
Women and race issues
Gender and society
Women and the Popular Culture

Courses Taught:

Inside Out: Prison, Women, and Performance

Bridges of Power: Contemporary Writing by Women of Color

Contemporary Issues in Feminism

Advanced Methods Seminar

Women, "Race," and Writing

Literature and Psychology of Mothers and Daughters

Last Updated: 12/31/07