Dr. Mary DeShazer
Professor of English
Contact
Office: C211 Tribble Hall
Phone: (336) 758-1956
Email: deshazer@wfu.edu
Degrees
PhD Oregon
MA Louisville
BA Western Kentucky
Areas of Interest
- Women's Literature
- Feminist Theory
- American Women Poets
Courses Taught at Wake Forest
ENG 170 - Introduction to American Literature
ENG 340 - Studies in Women and Literature
ENG 302 - Global Women Writers
ENG 340 - Studies in Women and Literature
FYS - Global Literature by Contemporary Women
WST 221 - Women's Issues
WST 321 - Gay and Lesbian Literature and Cultures
WST 358 - Mothers and Daughters: Literature and Theory
Selected Publications
Fractured Borders: Reading Women's Caner Literature, University of Michigan Press, 2005.
The Longman Anthology of Women's Literature, 2001. Allyn & Bacon/Longman Publishers
A Poetics of Resistance Women Writing in El Salvador, South Africa, and the U.S., University of Michigan Press, 1994.
Inspiring Women: Reimagining the Muse, Pergamon Press (Athene Series in Women's Studies), 1986.
“‘Lifting Each Other Off Our Knees’: South African Women’s Poetry of Resistance, 1980-1989,” in Cold War Literature, ed. Andrew Hammond. London: Routledge 2005.