Diane Elam is a feminist

Feminism

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 writer and author of Feminism and Deconstruction: Ms. en Abyme (1994), Romancing the Postmodern (1992) and co-editor (with Robyn Wiegman) of Feminism Beside Itself (1995). Elam was also professor of English literature and critical and cultural theory at Cardiff University

Cardiff University

Cardiff University is a leading research university located in the Cathays Park area of Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom. It received its Royal charter in 1883 and is a member of the Russell Group of Universities. The university is consistently recognised as providing high quality research-based...

 in Wales

Wales

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, at Indiana University

Indiana University

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 in Bloomington, and at Bryn Mawr College

Bryn Mawr College

Bryn Mawr College is a women's liberal arts college located in Bryn Mawr, a community in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, ten miles west of Philadelphia. The name "Bryn Mawr" means "big hill" in Welsh....

in Pennsylvania. Before his death in an airplane crash in 1995, she was married to fellow academic Bill Readings, a professor of Comparative Literature at the Université de Montréal.

External links

• Gorton, Kristyn. Diane Elam's Work, 1999. Retrieved June 27, 2007.
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