Melissa F. Zeiger
Associate Professor
Appointments
Associate Professor of English
Area of Expertise
Modern and contemporary poetry,
elegy,
Elizabeth Bishop,
Immigrant Writing,
Feminist Theory,
Politics of the Love Lyric,
Modern and Contemporary Poetry,
Women's Poetry,
the Poetry of Illness,
AIDS and Breast Cancer Literature and Theory,
Genre,
Feminist Criticism,
Ecocriticism,
Cultural Memory Theory,
Garden writing
Education
B.A. Swarthmore College
M.A. Cornell University
Ph.D. Cornell University
Publications
"The Ecopoetics of Survival: The Transborder Immigrant Tool and The Desert Survival Series," Ecozona Vol 10 No 1 (2019): Toward an Ecopoetics of Randomness and Design.
"Elizabeth Bishop's Immersion in 'The Riverman',"" in Reading Elizabeth Bishop: An Edinburgh Companion), ed. Jonathan Ellis, 2019.
"'Less Than Perfect': Negotiating Breast Cancer in Popular Romance Novels." Tulsa Studies In Women's Literature (Special Issue on Breast Cancer Literature), 32.2/33.1
"Grace Paley's Poetics of Breath," Contemporary Women's Writing 2009 3(2):158-163
Beyond Consolation: Death, Sexuality, and the Changing Shapes of Elegy
(Cornell University Press, 1997)
Works in Progress
Current projects: The Poetics and Politics of Gardens; Elizabeth Bishop's Reading
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