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Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature
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S. Paige Sweet

Department Affiliations


Specialties

  • French, Brazilian, and American film, literature, and poetry; modern and post-modern literatures and theory; World Literature; film, literary, and critical theory; transnational feminist, race, gender, and queer theory; aesthetics and politics; memory and forgetting; visual and print culture.

Educational Background

  • Ph.D. : Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
  • M.A.: Humanities and Social Thought, New York University, New York.
  • B.A.: Women's Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA.

Publications

  • Sweet, S. Paige. "Fragments of Self: Forging a Transliteration of Forgetting in Clarice Lispector's A Paixí£o Segundo G. H.." Tinta 8 (2008): 13-24. Link
  • Sweet, S. Paige. "Where’s the Booty?: The Stakes of Textual and Economic Piracy as Seen Through the Work of Kathy Acker." darkmatter: in the ruins of imperial culture 10 (2009): Link

Professional Activities

  • Visiting Professor: Macalester College , Fall 2009

Awards

  • Harold Leonard Memorial Film Fellowship, September 2008 - May 2009
  • Harold Leonard Film Study Fellowship (Fall 2008)
  • Graduate School Research Grant (Spring 2009)
  • Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education (Summer 2008)
  • Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education (Summer 2007)
  • Graduate Research Partnership Program (Summer 2006)
  • GAPSA Travel Grant - University of Minnesota Spring 2005
  • Susan Geiger Award for Feminist Scholarship (Honorable Mention) Spring 2003

Courses Taught

  • Film and Feminism
  • Transnational Perspectives on Gender, Race, Class, and Sexuality
  • Twentieth Century Anglophone Women Writers (Focus: Caribbean)
  • Topics in Postmodern and Postcolonial Feminist Literature
  • Politics of Sex
  • Women's Contemporary Fiction
  • Introduction to Literature: Theory and Practice
  • Introduction to Film Studies
  • Oppositional Cinemas
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