Notes on contributor
Barbara Frey Waxman is professor of English Emerita at The University of North Carolina Wilmington where she has taught courses in US Ethnic literature, multicultural US memoirs, food memoirs, women in literature, US Latino literature, and literature about later life. She has written two books on aging in literature, edited a collection of essays that use a critical lens of poststructuralism and feminism, including her own essay on Morrison's Beloved. Additionally, more than 50 of her essays appear as chapters in collections and in scholarly journals on works by such authors as Cristina Garcia, Richard Rodriguez Philip Roth, Eva Hoffman, Alice Walker, Marie Arana, M. F. K. Fisher, and Ruth Reichl.