Elizabeth Bekers (University of Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium)

Submitted:  Mon, 31 January 2005


Dr. Elisabeth Bekers
Postcolonial Literatures Research Group
University of Antwerp (Stadscampus)
Prinsstraat 13
B-2000
Antwerpen
Belgium

phone:   +32 3 220 42 74
fax:     +32 3 220 42 59
E-mail:  elisabeth.bekers@ua.ac.be

Web site: http://www.ua.ac.be/postcolonial


Dr. Elisabeth Bekers is Postdoctoral Assistant in English literature at
the University of Antwerp (UA). She holds a Master of Arts in New
Literatures in English from the University of Hull (1995) and was a
Fulbright exchange scholar at Hollins University, Virginia (USA) in
1995-1996. 

She is currently preparing the publication of her PhD dissertation 
(University of Antwerp, 2002), a comparative analysis of African and 
African-American creative writing on female genital excision 
(clitoridectomy and infibulation). 

In her classes she focuses on rewritings of British classics such as The 
Tempest, Robinson Crusoe and Jane Eyre.

She is co-founder of the Postcolonial Literatures Research Group at the 
University of Antwerp and Honorary European Liaison of the Graduate 
Student Caucus of the African Literature Association.

[ Key words: African and African-American Literatures ]