Victoria de Zwaan
B.A ( Trent ), M.A. (McGill), Ph.D. ( Toronto )
Associate Professor of Cultural Studies

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Current interests: narrative and genre theory; experimental fiction; history of the novel; literary theory; comparative literature; hypertext and new media fiction
 
Publications include Interpreting Radical Metaphor in the Experimental Fictions of Donald Barthelme, Thomas Pynchon, and Kathy Acker (Edwin Mellen Press, 2002); "'A Child of the Oven': the Politics of the Imaginary in Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow." Forthcoming, Pynchon Notes; "Seminal Authority and the Dissemination of Self: the Law of Fitzgerald Scholarship." English Studies in Canada . English Studies in Canada 28 (2002); and "Rethinking the Slipstream: Kathy Acker Reads Neuromancer ." Science-fiction Studies 24.3 (November 1997).

Note: Professor de Zwaan is on sabbatical in 2007/08.