Melissa F. Zeiger

Associate Professor of English

Departments and Programs English Jewish Studies Related Links http://www.dartmouth.edu/~english/faculty/zeiger.html

Contact Information

Email: melissa.f.zeiger@dartmouth.edu

Phone: 603-646-2755

Hinman Box: HB 6032

Education

• B.A. Swarthmore College; M.A. Cornell University; Ph.D. Cornell University

Areas of Expertise

• Victorian literature; elegy; Elizabeth Bishop

Selected Works

• Beyond Consolation: Death, Sexuality, and the Changing Shapes of Elegy , (1997).
• “Beyond Mourning and Melancholia: AIDS Elegies” Oxford Quarterly , (Spring 1997) 51-72.
• “‘A Muse Funereal’: The Critique of Elegy in Swinburne’s ‘Ave atque Vale’,” Victorian Poetry , 24 (Summer 1986) 173-188.

Current Projects

• “Immigrant Women Writing in America: Why Poetry?” unpublished work of Elizabeth Bishop