Ellen Messer-Davidow is Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, as well as on the faculty of the Women??'s Studies Department, the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies, the Program in American Studies, and the Department of Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature. She is the coeditor of several books, including (En)Gendering Knowledge: Feminists in Academe and Knowledges: Historical and Critical Studies in Disciplinarity.