C.A. Schaefer

C.A. Schaefer is a PhD student at the University of Utah, where she teaches creative writing and is a managing editor of Quarterly West. Her work has been most recently seen or is forthcoming in Western Humanities Review, Tidal Basin Review, Melusine, and Drunken Boat.

Notes to “The Aquatic Geography of Gender: Semiotics of the Melusine Metaphor*”

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I recommend the 2002 anthology of essays on Hybrid Maternity ed. by Prudence DeWitt and Angela Burney for its attention to syntactical fidelity and matrimonial pathology. Traditionally men transformed prior to sexual encounters with women. Zeus was notorious, for instance, for turning himself into a variety of animals. When he encounters Leda, he turns himself into the swan. It was far more… Read more →