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My current research is on South African literature and the completion of my book, Multicultural Aesthetics. My publications include the books: Women Shapeshifters: Transforming the Contemporary Novel, Worlds Within Women: Myth & Mythmaking in Fantastic Literature by Women and Radiant Daughters: Fictional American Women. Recent articles and book chapters include "The Science of Literature"; (Potchefstroom, S. Africa, 2001); "ReCreating Memory in the American West" (Reno, NV: 1999); "What's in a Word: Possessing A. S. Byatt's Meronymic Novel" (Detroit, 1998); "Is Hope A Fiction? Women and the Meronymic Novel" (Heidelberg: 1998); "Gender Images and Patterns from Novel to Film" (Amsterdam: 1996); "Las Feministas Reinventan la Historia en las Novelas de Silko, Kingston y Bambara" (Malaga, Spain: 1995); "A Pattern of Possibility in Maxine Hong Kingston's Woman Warrior" (Ethnic Studies, 1994); "Living the Answer: The Emergence of African American Feminist Drama" (Studies in the Humanities 1990); and "The Fable of Reality: Mythoptics in John Crowley's Little, Big" (Extrapolation 1990). |
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As
a Professor of English teaching at ASU since 1975 and founding Director
of ASU Women's Studies 1977-80, my primary areas of research have been
in the Novel in English, Women and American Ethnic writers, Modern
and American Drama, and Myth and Folkloric Influences on Literature.
I have taught all my classes online during 2003 and am currently preparing
to teach an online course in American and South African Literatures
that I created and will co-teach with a colleague I met while teaching
as a Fulbright Senior Lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch in
2000. Hopefully our students in each country will be able to exchange
their ideas on MyASU's Blackboard discussion boards.