 Associate Professor of EnglishOffice: Hellems 121 Telephone: 303-492-7891 E-mail: Mary.Klages@colorado.edu |
Research and teaching interests
American literature; gender studies; disability studies
Education
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1989
M.A., Stanford University, 1983
A.B., Dartmouth College, 1980
Publications
Books
Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed. Continuum Press, 2006
General ed. with Lisa Maria Hogeland, The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers Vol. 1: Seventeenth through Nineteenth Centuries. Aunt Lute Books, 2004
Woeful Afflictions: Disability and Sentimentality in Victorian America. Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1999
Essays
“Sarah Helen De Kroyft.” Encyclopedia of American Disability History , forthcoming 2008
“The Dark Night of the Subject Position, or, The Pedagogical Paradoxes of Poststructuralism.” Education and Society (Australia) 22, 2 (2004): 45-56
"Postmodernism." Moon Palace, by Paul Auster. Ed. Rudolf F. Rae. Verlag Mortiz Diesterweg, 2001, 368-72
"You've Got Whale: Teaching Moby-Dick with Email." Leviathan 2, 2 (2000): 55-73
"William Henry Churchman." American National Biography. Oxford Univ. Press, 1997
"Censorship." The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States. Ed. Cathy Davidson and Linda Wagner-Martin. Oxford Univ. Press, 1995, 158-60
"The Ins and Outs of a Lesbian Academic." Tilting the Tower: Lesbians/Teaching/Queer/Subjects. Ed. Linda Garber. Routledge, 1994, 235-42
"Seeing 'Eye' to 'I'." Stanford Humanities Review 2, 2 (Spring 1992)
"What to Do with Helen Keller Jokes: A Feminist Act." New Perspectives on Women and Comedy. Ed. Regina Barreca. Gordon and Breach, 1992, 13-22
Selected honors and awards
CU Boulder Faculty Fellowship, 2005-2006
Boulder Faculty Assembly Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2003
Student Organization for Alumni Relations Teaching Recognition Award, CU Boulder, 1994
Elizabeth Colwell Wiegers Faculty Fellowship, CU Boulder, 1993
Current projects
Key Concepts in Literary Theory (book)
Literary Hygiene (book)
"Dis-A(hab)ility: Melville and the Perfect Body" (article)
“Deaf, Dumb, and Domestic: Representations of Deaf Women in Nineteenth-Century Fiction” (article)