Maureen Fadem

Maureen Fadem is an Instructor of English. Her fields
of expertise are Postcolonial literature and Women's Studies

Education:

Ph. D candidate, CUNY-Graduate Center
M.A., English literature, Queens College, 2002
B.A., Honors Liberal Studies, Arcadia University, 1999

Recent publications

"Self-Contradiction in a Small Place: Anne Devlin’s ‘Other at the Edge of Life.’” Affecting Irishness: Negotiating Cultural Identity Within and Beyond the Nation. Eds. James P. Byrne, Padraig Kirwan and Michael O'Sullivan. New York: Peter Lang, 2008.

Review Article: “’Poetry is Not a Luxury’: Meena Alexander’s Raw Silk.” Semicerchio, XXXII – XXXIII (September 2005):129 – 131.

“’bringing me into the world’: Brossard’s Lovhers and the Domain of Linguistic Survival.” How2 2.3 (April 2005). (http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/archive/online_archive/v2_3_2005/current/special/brossard/fadem_article.htm)

“The Interval.” Word. On Being a [Woman] Writer. Ed. Jocelyn Burrell. New York: The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2004:180 – 201.

Review: Yann Martel, Life of Pi. South Asian Review, 24 (December 2003):231 – 233.

Review Article: “Illiterate Heart: The Movement Toward Self Definition.” JOUVERT: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Special Issue: Colonial Posts, 7.2 (Spring 2003). (http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/jouvert/v7i2/con72.htm)

"Sparrows and Hawks: Class, Gender and the Politics of Decolonization in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India.” South Asian Review 23.2 (2002): 12 – 13.

“Translation, An Art of Negativity: A Conversation with Meena Alexander.” Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry 45.2 (Spring/Summer 2002): 102 – 110.