Melissa F. Zeiger
Associate Professor of English
Associate Professor of English
Department(s):
English
Jewish Studies
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Education:
B.A. Swarthmore College
M.A. Cornell University
Ph.D. Cornell University
Selected Publications
"'Less Than Perfect': Negotiating Breast Cancer in Popular Romance Novels" (2012)
"Grace Paley's Poetics of Breath" (2009)
“Beyond Mourning and Melancholia: AIDS Elegies” Oxford Quarterly , (Spring 1997) 51-72.
Beyond Consolation: Death, Sexuality, and the Changing Shapes of Elegy , (1997).
Works in progress
Current projects: The Poetics and Politics of Gardens; Elizabeth Bishop's Reading