Dr. Bonnie Zare
Associate Professor, Women's Studies
Ross Hall 120, (307) 766-2168
bzare@uwyo.edu
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
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
My Winter 2008 "Women of India
and Social Justice" overseas course that travels to
Delhi and Hyderabad is already full.
To read the 2007 students' summaries of their experience, please click
here.
For further information, please contact me
at
bzare@uwyo.edu
or Wendy Perkins in the Women's Studies office
wperkins@uwyo.edu
Selected Awards
John P. Ellbogen University Teaching Award, 2005
Extraordinary Merit in Teaching, College of Arts and Sciences, 2002
Forthcoming book
Nalini Iyer and Bonnie Zare’s collection Other Tongues: Rethinking
the Language Debates in India will be published by Rodopi Press in the fall.
Other Tongues brings together voices from differing national, linguistic
and professional contexts to examine the debate over the hegemonic role of
Indian writing in English. Seven scholars, three authors, and three publishers
offer a nuanced analysis of controversies over language, audience and
canon-formation.
By creating a dialogue between different stakeholders, this volume brings out
underrepresented aspects of Indian literature and translation practices.
Contributors include Urvashi Butalia, Arnab Chakladar, Chitra Divakaruni, Geeta
Dharmarajan, Mahesh Elkunchwar, Nalini Iyer, Mini Krishnan, Nina Swamidoss
McConigley, Christi Merrill, Josna Rege, Pradip Sen, Lavina Dhingra Shankar, S.
Shankar, Anushiya Sivanarayanan and Bonnie Zare.
Table of Contents
Selected Publications
“Evolving
Masculinities in Recent Stories by South Asian American Women” The
Journal of Commonwealth Literature
(3, 2007): 99-112.
“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,
“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:
2007, "Gogi Saroj Pal's Activist Animal Imagery" South Asia Studies Conference,
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
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
Return to UW Women's Studies