About the Speaker

Marilee Lindemann
University of Maryland, College Park

Marilee Lindemann is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and the Director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of Willa Cather: Queering America (Columbia University Press, 1999) and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Willa Cather (Cambridge University Press, 2005).  She also edited Cather's Alexander's Bridge (1997) and O Pioneers! (1999) for Oxford University Press.  Her writing has appeared in several anthologies of criticism and in American Literary History, The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage, and the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Newsletter. She is also the author of the blog, Roxie's World (roxies-world.blogspot.com), where she writes in the persona of Roxie Smith Lindemann, a 13-year-old wire-haired fox terrier she shares with her partner. Lindemann earned her PhD in English from Rutgers in 1991.