Elizabeth Meese

Elizabeth Meese was an American academic who specialized in feminist theory. She was a professor at the University of Alabama, in the English Department, which named an award for her, the "Elizabeth Meese Memorial Award in Feminist Theory".[1]

With her partner, creative writing professor Sandy Huss, she has published essays that combine theoretical writing with fiction, as in the collection Lesbian Erotics.[2] An essay of hers in an anthology edited by Karla Jay and Joanne Glasgow, Lesbian Texts and Contexts, was praised by one reviewer for "suggestively wander[ing] through problems of meaning and representation, ruminating on the connections among desire, lesbian identity, and writing".[3]

Bibliography

Edited collection

  • The Difference Within: Feminism and Critical Theory (with Alice Parker; John Benjamins, 1989)[4][5][6]

Monographs

  • (Ex)tensions: Re-Figuring Feminist Criticism (University of Illinois Press, 1990)[7]

References

  1. ^ "Elizabeth Meese Memorial Award in Feminist Theory". English Department, University of Alabama. March 5, 2018. Retrieved October 29, 2020.
  2. ^ Allen, Dennis W. (1998). "Review: The Marketing of Queer Theory; Queer Noises: Male and Female Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Music by John Gill; Lesbian Erotics by Karla Jay; Out in Culture: Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Essays on Popular Culture by Corey K. Creekmur and Alexander Doty". College Literature. 25 (1): 282–288. JSTOR 25112368.
  3. ^ Roof, Judith (1992). "Review: The Essentials of Lesbian Studies: Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America by Lillian Faderman; The Safe Sea of Women: Lesbian Fiction 1969-1989 by Bonnie Zimmerman; Lesbian Texts and Contexts: Radical Revisions by Karla Jay and Joanne Glasgow". Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature. 11 (2): 355–61. doi:10.2307/464307. JSTOR 464307.
  4. ^ Leslie-Spinks, Amanda (1990). "Review: Different Differences; The Difference within: Feminism and Critical Theory by Elizabeth Meese and Alice Parker". The Women's Review of Books. 7 (8): 15–16. doi:10.2307/4020721. JSTOR 4020721.
  5. ^ "Reviewed Work(s): The Difference Within: Feminism and Critical Theory by Elizabeth Meese and Alice Parker". Nouvelles Questions Féministes. 16/18: 248–251. 1991. JSTOR 40602870.
  6. ^ Rosenman, Ellen B. (1990). "Reviewed Work(s): The Difference Within: Feminism and Critical Theory by Elizabeth Meese and Alice Parker". South Atlantic Review. 55 (3): 152–153. doi:10.2307/3200325. JSTOR 3200325.
  7. ^ Martindale, Kathleen (1993). "Reviewed Work(s): (Ex)tensions: Re-Figuring Feminist Criticism by Elizabeth Meese". Hypatia. 8 (1): 214–219. JSTOR 3810315.