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Wendy K. Kolmar is a Professor of English and the Director of the Women's Studies program at Drew University.
Courses:
She teaches courses on Victorian literature, feminist theory, women and literature, gothic and supernatural literature, film and literary criticism. Her publication include Haunting the House of Fiction: Feminist Perspectives on Ghost Stories by American Women (with Lynette Carpenter -- 1991); Creating an Inclusive College Curriculum: A Teaching Source Book from the New Jersey Project (edited with Ellen G. Friedman, Charley B. Flint, and Paula Rothenberg1996); A Selected Annotated Bibliography of Ghost Stories by British and American Women Writers (with Lynette Carpenter1998); Feminist Theory: A Reader (with Fran Bartkowski 1999).
Major Publications:
Feminist Theory: A Reader (co-edited with Fran Bartkowski). Mayfield Publishing.
1999. Historical reader (1792-1995) with introduction, "Reading Feminist
Theory" as well as brief historical section introduction and summary essays
on theoretical terms.
Ghost Stories by British and American Women: An Annotated Bibliography (co-authored
with Lynette Carpenter, Ohio Wesleyan University). Garland Press, 1999. A selected,
annotated book-length bibliography of supernatural fiction by British and American
women; the book includes a substantial critical introduction.
Creating an Inclusive College Curriculum: A Teaching Sourcebook from the New
Jersey Project. Eds. Ellen Friedman, Wendy Kolmar, Charlie Flint, Paula Rothenberg.
Teachers' College Press. 1995. (Includes my essay on institutionalizing curriculum
change and an essay co-authored with Jim Hala on the film and literature course
we team teach.) "American Women's Ghost Stories" in The Feminist Companion
to Women's Writing in America. Oxford University Press, 1995.
Haunting the House of Fiction: Feminist Perspectives on Ghost Stories by American
Women (co-edited with Lynette Carpenter, Ohio Wesleyan University). University
of Tennessee Press. 1991. Edited collection of essays with a critical introduction.Contains
my essay: "Dialectics of Connectedness: The Supernatural in the Novels
of Bambara, Cisneros, Erdrich and Grahn"
The New Jersey Project: Integrating the Scholarship on Gender, 1986-90. Institute
for Research on Women, Rutgers, 1991. Edited collection of essays by faculty
and administrators who participated in this curriculum transformation project.
Includes my essay: "Models of Institutional Change"
Forthcoming:
Guest Editor. "Film and Women's Studies," Special Issue of Women's
Studies Quarterly, Fall 2001
"Nineteenth-Century Feminism," Entry for Routledge International Enclyclopdia
of Women
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