Anglo-American Feminist Literary Studies

fostering a critical and an in-depth reading of literary texts as historically specific and socially determined socio-material and semiotic practices, as communication events, as instances of discourse, and as reflections of socio-political systems whereby gender binaries are either upheld or questioned and imploded to be replaced with transformative visions

acquisition and consolidation of the understanding of basic feminist theories on power discourses and power mechanisms through discursive analyses of literary texts

in-depth analyses of feminist-literary theories on subject formation: historical materialism, poststructuralism and postcolonial studies