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Dr. Mary DeShazer
Professor of English

Education

PhD, Oregon
MA, Louisville
BA, Western Kentucky

Area(s) of Specialty

Women's Literature
Feminist Theory
American Women Poets

Contact Information

On Leave
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Courses Taught at WFU

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.

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