Dr. Bonnie Zare
Associate Professor, Women's Studies
Ross Hall 120, (307) 766-2168
bzare@uwyo.edu

1994 PhD Tufts University (English)
1989 MA U. of Wisconsin 
1988 BA Stanford University 
1987 Visiting Scholar, Brasenose College, Oxford University

Receiving a shawl from Archana Mathur
after a lecture at Bhim Rao Ambedkar College, Delhi, 2006



Research Interests: 
contemporary South Asian women's literature, art, and activism; British Victorian literature; narrative theory; history of marriage; female friendship; alternative sexuality 

NEW announcement:
Fulfill your Global requirement by taking
a 3-week UW course in India!

Visit Delhi, Hyderabad, and the Taj Mahal in Agra
See how women in metropolitan India are confronting and
modifying cultural traditions
Attend workshops with social justice organizations to learn
about creative problem-solving
Study literary works and films that inspire activism

When: December 27, 2008 - January 12, 2009

Approximate cost:           $3,300 (3 credits)

(Some scholarship money is available; application deadline will be in late September).
How:
Sign up for
Women of India WMST/INST 4590 fall 08 (or have taken it before)
meets Tues, Thurs. 9:35-10:50 am for 3 credits
WMST 4975-02 (1 credit) fall 08

Contact me at bzare@uwyo.edu
or Wendy Perkins in the Women's Studies office wperkins@uwyo.edu for more information.

My courses (students please click on this) 
include Women of India: Literatures and Lives,  Gender and Humanities, Introduction to Women's Studies, Honors First-Year Seminar

Selected Awards

John P. Ellbogen University Teaching Award, 2005

Extraordinary Merit in Teaching, College of Arts and Sciences, 2002

Selected Publications

“Evolving Masculinities in Recent Stories by South Asian American Women” The Journal of Commonwealth Literature (forthcoming, June 2007).  

“First Comes Marriage, Then Comes Emptiness: Identity Formation in Shashi Deshpande’s Novels” South Asian Review 25 (2004) 84-103.  

“Rossetti’s Venus and Burne-Jones’s Mermaid: Invitations to Dialogue” 
Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, 12 (2003) 7-22.

“Sentimentalized Adultery”: The Film Industry’s Next Step in Consumerism.” 
Journal of Popular Culture, 35 (2001): 29-42.  

"Feminist Triumphs over Femme Fatale: Sarah Woodruff's The French Lieutenant's Woman." Modern Language Studies 27 (1997): 175-196.

"Jane Eyre's Excruciating Ending." College Language Association Journal  37 (1993): 204-220.

Selected conference presentations:

2006,  “India’s Bandit Queen as Testimonio: the Limits of Social Expose” Forum on Contemporary Theory, Udaipur, India
2006, “The Conceptual Construction of Mail Order Brides in Popular Culture and its Impact on U.S. Public Policy” Women, Immigration, Transnational Migration and Public Policy Conference, Mt. St. Vincent University, Halifax, Canada
2005, “How Barrier Crossing Authors are Denied a World Audience” South Asia Studies Conference, Madison, Wisconsin
2004, “Policing Brides-to-Be: Contemporary Writers Sow Seeds of Change” South Asian Literary Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

My current work is on Gogi Saroj Pal, one of India's most admired female artists. Go here to see some of her images.

It is an honor to serve as the faculty advisor for Women's Action Network, an active student organization that promotes awareness of gender and social justice issues.  
Link to the organization's scrapbook

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