Genre Across Borders (GXB) | an international, interdisciplinary network of researchers, theories, and resources

About GXB

Genre is a idea that crosses disciplinary, national, methodological, conceptual, and pedagogical borders. The purpose of Genre across Borders (GXB) is to advance genre theory and research by helping scholars and students cross these borders. The site combines two primary functions:

As a reference guide to scholarship in the many fields of genre study
As a networking portal for scholars and teachers

GXB aims to offer a comprehensive overview of the multiple strands of genre scholarship and their relationships, in order to catalyze intellectual exchange and pedagogical innovation and to help us understand the processes and motivations of genre development, evolution, and circulation.

GXB now features translations of research introductions on our Research page. Contact us to contribute a translation. You may also select an interface display language on your Profile page.

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Sample Bibliography

[951] Siemens, R., & Schreibman S. (2007). A Companion to Digital Literary Studies.

[1045] Bazerman, C. (1994). Systems of genres and the enactment of social intentions. (Freedman, A., & Medway P., Ed.).Genre and the new rhetoric. 79-101.

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Name: Heather Dubrow

Institution: Fordham University

Department/Program Affiliation: English

Education: Ph.D., English, Harvard University, 1972

Status: John D. Boyd, SJ,Chair in the Poetic Imagination

Biography: Heather Dubrow is the author of six single-authored scholarly books (most recently *The Challenges of Orpheus:Lyric Poetry and Early Modern England*), co-editor of a collection of essays, and editor of *As You Like It*. Her poetry has appeared in her collection *Forms and Hollows* (published by Cherry Grove) and in such journals as *Prairie Schooner* and *Southern Review*. She has published articles on both early modern literature and pedagogy. Among her interests are lyric, Shakespeare, genre, and the new formalisms; her interdisciplinary work focuses on the visual arts.