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Sidonie Smith - “What Happened to Feminism?”

Date: 4/8/2008; 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
Location: Room 2022
202 South Thayer Street
Ann Arbor, MI
Host Department: Institute for the Humanities

Sidonie Smith, Martha Guernsey Colby Collegiate Professor of English and Women’s Studies; Chair, English, University of Michigan
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Sidonie Smith is Martha Guernsey Colby Collegiate Professor of English and Women’s Studies and Chair of the English Department. Her fields of interest include human rights and personal narrative, women’s autobiography, women’s travel narrative and memory, women’s studies in literature more generally, feminist theory, and postcolonial literatures.
Among her publications are:
  • A Poetics of Women’s Autobiography: Marginality and the Fictions of Self-Representation
  • Subjectivity, Identity, and the Body: Women’s Autobiographical Practices in the Twentieth Century
  • Writing New Identities: Gender, Nation, and Immigration in Contemporary Europe (co-edited with Gisela Brinker-Gabler)
  • Moving Lives: Women’s Twentieth Century Travel Narratives
  • Human Rights and Narrated Lives: The Ethics of Recognition (with Kay Schaffer).

    Free and open to the public


    Contact Information
    Doretha Coval
    734 936 3518
    humin@umich.edu