Arhu Faculty Named To Equality Maryland Board Of Directors

Marilee Lindemann, English associate professor and director of LGBT studies, appointed to Equality Maryland. 

Marilee Lindemann, English associate professor and director of LGBT studies, appointed to Equality Maryland. Lindemann specializes in American; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies and Literary Theory

She has published extensively on novelist Willa Cather and other queer American writers. Her more recent scholarly work is focused on how blogs and other social media tools are transforming the ways we read, write, think, and create change in the 21st century. Her blog, Roxie's World, is an experiment in comic punditry that often takes up LGBT issues and concerns. She has served on the editorial boards of American Literature and American Quarterly and held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Association of University Women, and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. In 2007, she was awarded the Michael Lynch Service Award from the Gay/Lesbian/Queer Caucus of the Modern Language Association in recognition of her contributions to building LGBT/Queer Studies

Equality Maryland works to secure and protect the rights of LGBT Marylanders by promoting legislative initiatives on the state, county and municipal levels. Their professional lobbyists and legislative team work with allies in the General Assembly to shape and pass positive legislation in Annapolis and to beat back discriminatory legislation.