Rate My Professor Elizabeth Abel

In addition to her monographs, Abel has edited influential collections including Writing and Sexual Difference (University of Chicago Press, 1982), The Signs Reader: Women, Gender, and Scholarship (1983), and Female Subjects in Black and White: Race, Psychoanalysis, Feminism (University of California Press, 1997). Her publication record encompasses essays such as "Black Writing, White Reading: Race and the Politics of Feminist Interpretation" (Critical Inquiry, 1993), "Bathroom Doors and Drinking Fountains: Jim Crow's Racial Symbolic" (Critical Inquiry, 1999), "Light Rooms: Medium, Mourning, Mania" (Critical Inquiry, 2018), and contributions to volumes like Modernism and Autobiography (2014) and Nancy Chodorow and the Reproduction of Mothering: Forty Years On (2020). Abel's ongoing research on resonance as a framework for literary transmission, sponsored by the France-Berkeley Fund, has organized colloquia in Paris and Berkeley (2019, 2022), with a final colloquium planned for spring 2024 and a forthcoming edited volume. Her work in Literature integrates gender and sexuality studies, cultural studies, and visuality.