Dr. Balzano - Program Director

Education:
Ph.D.: University College Dublin (National University of Ireland)
M.A.: University College Dublin (National University of Ireland)
B.A.: Istituto Universitario Orientale (University of Naples, Italy)

Courses Taught for WGS:
WGS 101: Window on Women's and Gender Studies
WGS 221: Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies
WGS 321: Gender and the Foreigner in a Transnational World
WGS 377: Irish Women in Writing and Film

Professional Research/Focus:
Feminist Critical Theory
Gender and Religion in Irish Literature and Film
Representations of Women in Comparative Literature
Cross-cultural intersections of women ’s writing with Art, Folklore, Film, the Classics, Philosophy, and Religion

“Godot Land and Its Ghosts: The Uncanny Genre and Gender of Edna O’Brien’s ‘Sister Imelda’,” in Wild Colonial Girl: Essays on Edna O’Brien, ed. Lisa Colletta and Maureen O’Connor. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2006.
"Una Troy and Siobhan Piercy", in Women Emerging: A Decade of Irish Feminist Scholarship, eds. Rebecca Pelan and Alan Hayes. Galway: Women’s Studies Centre, 2005.
“Between the Devil and the Deep Sea: Joyce’s Cinderella in Dubliners,” Studi Irlandesi, ed. Carlo Bigazzi. Rome: Yorick Libri, 2004.
“’Eveline’, or The Veils of Cleaning,” in A New & Complex Sensation:
Essays on Joyce’s Dubliners, ed. Oona Frawley. Dublin: Lilliput, 2004.
“Identity and Difference: The Question of the Foreigner in Irish Studies,” REA (Religion, Education and the Arts) Issue 3 - Special Issue on ‘The Future of Irish Studies,’ 2003.
"The Veiled Subject: Figuring the Feminine through Una Troy's/Elizabeth Connor's
'The Apple' and Siobhan Piercy's Screenprints", Women's Studies Review, Vol. 8, 'Women and the Arts,' December 2002.
"Searching for Beckett's Real Worlds," Journal of Beckett Studies, 11.1, 2001. "Irlandesità: sostantivo femminile, postcoloniale," in La Questione Postcoloniale. Cieli comuni, orizzonti divisi, eds. Iain Chambers and Lidia Curti. Napoli: Liguori, 1997.
"The Irish Post‑colonial Patchwork", Annali – Anglistica. Napoli: AION, XXXVIII.3 ‑ XXXIX.1, 1995-6.
"Elizabeth Connor's 'The Apple': Between Eve and Prometheus", in Insulae/lslands/Ireland: The Classical World and the Mediterranean, eds. Giuseppe Serpillo and Donatella Abbate Badin. Cagliari: Tema, 1996.
"Re‑Mythologizing Beckett," in Beckett On and On..., eds. Lois Oppenheim and Marius Buning. New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University, 1996.
"Irishness ‑ feminist and post‑colonial", in The Post‑Colonial Question. Common Skies, Divided Horizons, eds. Iain Chambers and Lidia Curti. London & New York: Routledge, 1996.
"Geometrie di fantastiche narratologie: Samuel Beckett", in Le Trasformazioni del Narrare, eds. E.Siciliani, A.Cerere, V.Intonti, A.Sportelli. Brindisi: Schena, 1995.
"Mito-topografia di una Passione: La Passione della Nuova Eva di Angela Carter", in DWF (Donna/Woman/Femme) 1.21, 1994.

Wanda Balzano has encyclopedic entries on Dacia Maraini, Elsa Morante and Matilde Serao in Compendium of World Novelists and Novels. New York: Facts On File, July 2007 (ISBN: 081-60-62331). Several of her reviews have appeared in The Irish Literary Supplement and the Irish University Review.