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Departmental Areas of Study have been established to allow a visitor to quickly find members of our faculty who share a particular area of study. Click on any of the links below to find other faculty members who have noted their interest in the same areas or click on the link above to browse all faculty by area of study.

Gender studies (feminist and queer theory); literary and cultural theory; interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to modernism and postmodernism.

Autobiographical discourses; visual culture (film and photography); ethnic studies; post-colonial discourses; creative non-fiction.

"Heimweh, or Homesickness" The Yale Review 95:3 (July 2007); "Coming Out Swiss/Living in the Fifth Switzerland" Southwest Review 91:2 (2006); Queering the Moderns: Poses/Portraits/Performances (Palgrave, 2000); "On Amelia Earhart: The Aviatrix as American Dandy” Michigan Quarterly Review 39:1 (Winter, 2000); A Menopausal Memoir: Letters from Another Climate (Haworth, 1998); Theorizing Feminism: Parallel Trends in the Humanities and Social Sciences, edited with Abigail Stewart (Westview, 1994; second edition, 2001); The Dialogic and Difference: ‘An/Other Woman’ in Virginia Woolf and Christa Wolf (Columbia, 1989); "Coming Out Swiss" in progress.