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Elisabeth Däumer
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PhD, Indiana University, 1989
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614A Pray-Harrold Ypsilanti, MI 48197
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734.487.3172
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Edaumer@emich.edu
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| Biography:
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I found my way to the United States as a foreign student on a one-year scholarship to attend Indiana University. Like so many other foreigners coming to this country, I stayed on. I completed my doctorate in 1989 and began working for EMU soon after. In 1999, I became an American citizen.
Despite having lived in America for many years, I’ve retained a distinct German accent. There are no doubt other things “German” about me, including research that frequently take me back to the country in which I was born and raised.
My scholarly interests include modern poetry and translation theory. In addition, issues of literary theory and practice, especially feminist theory and pedagogical practice, have long been of interest to me. Over the years, my thinking about feminism has undergone crucial changes—just as feminism itself. Yet despite my quibbles with aspects of feminism (some of which I addressed in an essay on lesbian feminist theory), it remains an important source of inspiration and critical energy for both my teaching and scholarship. |
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| Litr 102 Reading of Poetry
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| Eng 227: Writing About Literature |
| Litr 443: Women and Literature |
| Wmst 479: Theories of Sexuality |
| Litr 470: Studies in Poetry |
| Litr 490: Senior Seminar |
| Litr 511: Literary Criticism |
| Litr 577: Twentieth-Century American Poetry |
| Litr 592: Recent Developments in Feminist Theory |
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Co-editor. The International Reception of T. S. Eliot. London and New York: Continuum Press, 2007, forthcoming.
Co-editor. The Feminist Teacher Anthology. New York: Teachers College Press of Columbia Univ., 1998.
“The Hollow Men.” A Companion to T. S. Eliot. Ed. David Chinitz. London: Blackwell, 2008, forthcoming.
With Alec Marsh, “Pound and Eliot.” American Literary Scholarship. Ed. Gary Scharnhorst. Durham: Duke UP, 2007, forthcoming.
“Remodernizing T. S. Eliot: Eva Hesse and Das Wüste Land.” The International Reception of T. S. Eliot, ed. Elisabeth Däumer and Shyamal Bagchee. London and New York: Continuum Press, 2007, forthcoming.
“Blood and Witness: The Reception of Murder in the Cathedral in Post-War Germany.” Comparative Literature Studies 43 (2006): 79-99.
“Vipers, Viragos, and Spiritual Rebels: Women in T. S. Eliot’s Christian Society Plays.” In T.S.Eliot: Gender, Sexuality, Desire. Ed. Cassandra Laity and Nancy Gish. London: Cambridge UP, 2004. 234-53.
“Charlotte Stearns Eliot and Ash-Wednesday’s Lady of Silences.” English Literary History 65 (1998): 479-501.
“Queer Ethics; or, the Challenge of Bisexuality to Lesbian Ethics.” Hypatia 7.4 (Fall 1992): 92-105. Reprinted in Adventures in Lesbian Philosophy, ed. by Claudia Card (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994), pp. 98-111; in The Bisexuality Reader, ed. by Merl Storr (Routledge, 1999); and in Moral Issues in Global Perspective, ed. by Christine Koggel (broadview press, 2000).
Rev. of T. S. Eliot and the Art of Collaboration, by Richard Badenhausen. New York: Cambridge UP, 2005. English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 49 (2006): 238-41.
Rev. of T. S. Eliot and Our Turning World, ed. by Jewel Spears Brooker. T. S. Eliot Society Newsletter 45 (Fall 2001): 8-9.
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