Giannina braschi biography of alberta
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Hazel Stainer
All she wanted was to read, learn and write in peace without being dictated to by the misogynistic Mexican society. Juana Inés de la Cruz lived during Mexico’s colonial period when women were not allowed to attend university. Despite this, Juana educated herself through books and began writing her thoughts about love, feminism and religion. Yet, Juana could not avoid the advances of men who believed she should settle down and marry. She sought the safety of a nunnery, which allowed her to continue writing until her opinions upset (male) members of the clergy. This is the story of the first feminist in the Americas, the “Phoenix of America”, who rose from the ashes of “religious authoritarianism”.
Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana was born on 12th November 1648 in the village of San Miguel Nepantla near Mexico City. Although she had older sisters, Juana was an illegitimate child because her parents never married. He
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List of women writers (A–L)
This is a list of notable women writers.
Abbreviations: b. (born), c. (circa), ch. (children's), col. (columnist), es. (essayist), fl. (flourished), Hc. (Holocaust), mem. (memoirist), non-f. (non-fiction), nv. (novelist), pw. (playwright), wr. (writer), TV (television), YA (young adult)
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[edit]Aa–Ag
[edit]- Karen Aabye (1904–1982, Denmark), nv. & travel wr.
- Uma Aaltonen (1940–2009, Finland), YA wr.
- Jane Aamund (1936–2019, Denmark), col. & nv.
- Jane Aaron (b. 1951, Wales), wr. & scholar
- Madiha Abdalla (fl 2010s), Sudanese newspaper editor
- Masoumeh Abad (b. 1962, Iran/Persia), mem. & academic
- Mercedes Abad (b. 1961, Spain), fiction wr.
- Ines Abassi (b. 1982, Tunisia/UAE), poet & travel wr.
- Florencia Abbate (b. 1976, Argentina), fiction wr., poet & es.
- Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (1872–1958, United States), poet & fiction wr.
- Rachel Abbott (b. 1952, England), thriller wr.
- Shaila Abdullah (b. 1971, Pakista
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Faculty & Staff
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Associate Chair and Chair
Peter Balaam Bio
Associate Department Chair of English
Associate Professor of English
Office: Laird ingång 219
Phone: 507 222 4897
Email: pbalaam@carleton.edu
Peter Balaam teaches and writes on American literature and culture from the colonial period to 1900, with special interest in Emerson and the American novel. He is the author of a book on mourning in the antebellum U.S. literature entitled, in Melville’s phrase, “Misery’s Mathematics.” Degrees: University of California Berkeley, B.A.; Princeton Theological Seminary, M.Div.; Princeton University, M.A., Ph.D.
George Shuffelton Bio
Chair of English
Professor of English
Office: Laird Hall 207
Phone: 507 222 4317
Email: gshuffel@carleton.edu
George Shuffelton teaches medieval and early modern literature, with a particular focus on Middle English poetry. He has published w