Rosemarie Dombrowski
Teaching Associate, Department of English
Arizona State University
Rosemarie.Dombrowski@asu.edu

 

Rosemarie began teaching in the English department at Arizona State in August of 1998. She earned her undergraduate degrees in English and Anthropology from Arizona State in 1996. She has taught numerous sections of First Year Composition (WAC 101, ENG 101 & 102), as well as two breakout sections of ENG 222 and an independent section of ENG 242. She was awarded the Regents Graduate Academic Scholarship for the 2001-2002 academic year and is a member of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association and the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association.

Rosemarie studied at the University of Ghana at Legon in the summer of 1996. She has embarked on several projects as a result of her time abroad, including a study of indigenous West African dance and its re-inscription as both a performative and textual phenomena in the post-colonial era. She is also interested in the theory of ethnographic translation with regard to post-colonial cultures.

Rosemarie is currently in the drafting stages of her dissertation which will explore the form and function of feminist revisionist mythology in early to mid 20th Century poetic texts. She has done extensive research in the areas of Feminist and Post-Colonial theory, American and British Modernism, Modern & Traditional Dance, the Harlem Renaissance, post World War II American Poetry, and Contemporary American and Irish Poetry.

She resides in Phoenix with her three-year-old son, Brendan.

Scholarly Contributions and Presentations

"'Writing as Re-vision': L'Ecriture Feminine in the Poetics of Adrienne Rich." Conference at the Peaks, NAU, Spring 2002.

"Internationalizing the Indigenous: West African Dance from Pre-Colonial Ritual, to Performance, to Poetic Experimentation." (Dis)Junctions: Humanities Conference at UC Riverside, Spring 2002.

"Amalgamated Otherness: Caliban and the Colonialist Agenda of Elizabethan Travel Literature and Ethnography." Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, Spring 2002.

Interdisciplinary Biographical Dictionaries of the Western World's Great Cultural Eras, Volume 8: The Modern Age, 1914-2000, Spring 2003.
Martha Graham; Sylvia Plath; Adrienne Rich; Gertrude Stein; William Carlos Williams

Dictionary of Literary Biography, American Nature Writers, Poetry, Spring 2003.
Adrienne Rich