Faculty

Carine Mardorossian

Associate Professor
Office: 541 Clemens Hall
Phone number: 645 2575 ext 1063
E-mail address: cmardoro@buffalo.edu

 

Interests:

World Literature; Postcolonial and Caribbean studies; Feminist Theory

Courses taught:

Postcolonial Studies; Diaspora Literature and Theory; Feminist Theory and Method

Work in progress:

Framing the Victim: Cultures of Agency in the Contemporary United States

Selected publications:

Book

Reclaiming Difference:Caribbean Women Rewrite Postcolonialism. Charlottesville, VA: U of Virginia P (New World Series), August 2005.

Articles

  • The Crossgendered poetics of Maryse Condé." Forthcoming in a collection ed. by Benedicte Ledent and Maria Cristina  Fumagallo.
  • "Edwidge Danticat and Caribbean Women Writers." Forthcoming in a collection ed. by Martin Munro, University of Trinidad and Tobago.
  • "Unsuspecting Storyteller and Suspect Listener: A Postcolonial Reading of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre." ARIEL:  A Review of International English Literature 37.2-3 (May 2007).
  • "Rewriting the Postcolonial: Maryse Condé's Wuthering Heights."
  • Emerging Perspectives on Maryse Condé: A Writer of Her Own. Eds. Sally Barbour and Gerise Herndon. Africa World Press, 2006.
  • "Racial Vagaries in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights." Approaches to Teaching Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. Eds. Sue Lonoff and Terri Hasseler. New York: Modern Language Association, 2006.
  • "Cannibalizing the Victorians:  Maryse Condé's Postcolonial Rewriting." Changing Currents:  Transnational Caribbean Literary and Cultural Criticism.  Ed. Emily Allen Williams and Melvin Rahming.  Africa World Press, 2006.
  • "Race by Proxy in Maryse Condé's Fiction." Feasting on Words:  Cannibalism in Caribbean Fiction. Eds. Vera Broichhagen, Kathryn Lachman, and Nicole Simek.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006.
  • Reprint. "The Medicalization 'Natural Childbirth': Laboring Women, Coaching Men." Gendered Bodies: Feminist Perspectives, 1st Edition.  Eds. Judith Lorber and Lisa Jean Moore. Roxbury Pub Co, 2006.


Curriculum Vitae
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