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INTERTEXTS Women's Studies 4310/5310 Span5355 |
Dr. Beard holds a B.A. in English from Carleton College and the M.A. and Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University. She specializes in contemporary narratives, women writers of the Americas, and critical theory, particularly narrative theories and feminist theories. She has published numerous articles on narratives by Latin American writers and others on Indigenous authors of the U.S. and Canada. She has a completed book manuscript in Inter American literature, in which she discusses autobiographical works by contemporary women of the Americas as narratives of resistance. She is currently working on a book about autobiographical narratives of the Indian residential school experience in the U.S. and Canada. Dr. Beard spent the 1999-2000 academic year as a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Mexico doing research on the social construction of gender. She has also received grants for other research projects in Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina. She has participated in NEH summer programs in narrative theory, and in environmental ethics and issues in Alaska as well as a Newberry Library summer institute on "American Indian Autobiography as Tribal and Personal History: Who Gets to Tell the Story?" Dr. Beard has taught courses in Brazilian literature and is on the faculties of Comparative Literature, Women's Studies, and Latin American and Iberian Studies. She is Editor of the comparative literature journal Intertexts and a member of the Texas Tech University Teaching Academy.
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