Elizabeth Bekers

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	Belgium
Title	Dr.
Affiliation	University of Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium
Email	elisabeth.bekers@ua.ac.be
Mailing Address	Postcolonial Literatures Research Group University of Antwerp (Stadscampus) Prinsstraat 13 B-2000 Antwerpen Belgium
Phone/Fax Number(s)	phone: +32 3 220 42 74 fax: +32 3 220 42 59
Websites	http://www.ua.ac.be/postcolonial
Research Interests	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).
Teaching Interests	In her classes she focuses on rewritings of British classics such as The Tempest, Robinson Crusoe and Jane Eyre.
Publications	None on file.
Keywords	fiction ; Women studies ; genital excision ; African literatures ; African-American Literatures