Antje M. Rauwerda

Associate Professor, English

Van Meter G54
410-337-6218
arauwerda@goucher.edu

Education

B.A., University of British Columbia (Canada), 1992
B.A., University of Victoria (Canada), 1994
M.A., Queen’s University (Canada), 1996
Ph.D., Queen’s University (Canada), 2001

Areas of Scholarly Expertise and Interest

Third Culture Literature (The Literature of Writers Raised Abroad); Postcolonial Literature, Contemporary International Writing in English, British Literature.

Recent Publications/Presentations/Performances

The Writer and the Overseas Childhood: The Third Culture Literature of Kingsolver, McEwan
and Others (monograph). McFarland &Co, July 2012.

"Not Your Typical 'Diaspora' or 'Third World Cosmopolitan': Unexpectedly International Writing." Wasafiri 25. 3: 16-23.

"Exile Encampments: Whiteness in Alexandra Fuller's Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier." The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 44.2 (2009): 51-64.

Awards/Significant Accomplishments

Goucher Summer Research Grant, 2011 and 2008; Goucher "Phenomenal Woman" Award, 2008