Melissa F. Zeiger
Associate Professor of English
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Department(s)
English and Creative Writing
Education
- B.A. Swarthmore College
- M.A. Cornell University
- Ph.D. Cornell University
Selected 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