A New Atlantis? Shifting Shorelines and Salt Marshes

Between Third and Fourth Wave Feminism in the Twenty-first Century

Authors

  • Tegan Zimmerman

Author Biography

  • Tegan Zimmerman

    Tegan Zimmerman is Chair of the Alexa McDonough Institute at Mount Saint Vincent University and Chair of the International Comparative Literature Association’s Comparative Gender Studies Research Committee. She specializes in women’s writing, with a concentration on Caribbean and Canadian literature and historical fiction, as well as contemporary gender theory that centralizes the maternal and mother-daughter relations. Her work has appeared in journals such as Feminist Theory, MELUS, and Women’s Studies, and she is the author of Matria Redux: Caribbean Women Novelize the Past and Chronotropics: Caribbean Women Writing Spacetime, a co-edited collection with Odile Ferly. Zimmerman also serves as Editor of Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture, and Social Justice. 

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Published

2025-07-16

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Vol. 46 No. 2 (2025): Open Call / Gender and Climate Justice

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Open Call 2025

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