Cassandra Bausman

Cassandra Bausman holds a PhD in English Literature and an additional certificate in Rhetoric from the University of Iowa where she currently teaches. Her areas of expertise include contemporary literature and culture, gender and genre studies, feminist media studies, and adaptation and intertextuality studies, with specialties in genre fiction and film. Amongst these, fantasy literature features most prominently, as her dissertation focused on intersections between feminist revisionism and metafiction in a consideration of fantasy literature and its heroines that helped earn her the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts' Emerging Scholar Award. Organically positioned on the boundaries of many complementary discourses, her work as a teacher and scholar is consistently influenced by these productive intersections--particularly fantasy’s multi-media-dominance in pop culture—and the exciting ways they co-inform our collective tapestry of contemporary storytelling and cultural transmission.