l'Afrique

La Belgique

Dr.

University of Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium

elisabeth.bekers@ua.ac.be

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

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.

None on file.

fiction ; Women studies ; genital excision ; African literatures ; African-American Literatures