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Guest Lecture by Dr. Tegan Zimmerman (Stephens College)
03.06.2019
09:00 - 10:30
Institut für Amerikanistik
SR 34.D2, Attemsgasse 25

Dr. Tegan Zimmerman is an assistant professor of English and Creative Writing at Stephens College, a small liberal arts women's college in Columbia, Missouri. She specializes in contemporary women’s historical fiction, contemporary gender studies and literary theory. She has master’s degrees in Creative Writing (University of East Anglia) and Philosophy (University of Calgary) and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (University of Alberta). Her book Matria Redux: Caribbean Women’s Historical Fiction, forthcoming this year from Northwestern UP, examines the concepts of maternal history and maternal genealogy. This spring semester she is the Käthe-Leichter Visiting Professor in Gender Studies at the University of Vienna.

The event is free and open to the public.

This lecture is organized by the Institute of American Studies and kindly supported by the Office of International Relations.