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Women's & Gender Studies Program
Wake Forest University
Tribble Hall, A106A
P.O. Box 7365
Winston-Salem, NC 27109

Phone: 336-758-3758
Fax: 336-758-4143
wgs@wfu.edu

Dr. Mary DeShazer - Professor of English & Women's and Gender Studies

Office: Tribble C211
Phone: (336) 758-1956
Email: deshazer@wfu.edu

Education:

Ph.D.: Oregon

M.A.: Louisville

B.A.: Western Kentucky

Courses Taught for WGS:

WGS 221: Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies

WGS 321: Gay and Lesbian Literature and Cultures

WGS 377/677: Special Topics: U.S. Women Poets (same as ENG 302/602)

WGS 358: Mothers and Daughters: Literature and Theory

Seminar: International Women's Movements

Women and Literature

Global Women's Literature

Professional Research/Focus:

Women's Literature

Feminist Theory

American Women Poets

Selected Publications:

Books:

• Fractured Borders: Reading Women's Cancer Literature, University of Michigan Press, 2005.
• The Longman Anthology of Women's Literature, 2001.
• 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.

Recent Articles/Essays:

• "'Lifting Each Other Off Our Knees': South African Women's Poetry of Resistance, 1980-1989" in Cole War Literature, ed. Andrew Hammond. London: Routledge 2005.
• "Fractured Borders: Women's Cancer Feminist Theatre," NWSA Journal, Fall 2003.
• "'Walls Made Out of Paper' : Witnessing Wit and How I Learned to Drive," Women and Performance, Fall 2002.
• "Transnational Gendered Modernisms" in HOW2, www.departments.bucknell.edu/stadler_center/how2 (April 2002).