Mazey, Lisa

Dr. Lisa V. Mazey is an adjunct professor of English and has taught as an ELA teacher and Reading Specialist in Pennsylvania. She has published Cinematic Women, From Objecthood to Heroism (2020) and her interests include American historical fiction, nonfiction, and film. Dr. Mazey reads novels and books about marginalized people, including African Americans and Native Americans, because she loves to learn about their interesting lives. In her spare time, she paints, gardens, sews, and takes care of her family which has two dogs, Maple and Phoebe, and a cat, Dahlia.

DISGUISED WOMEN SOLDIERS IN THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR: As Presented in American Historical Fiction (Hard Cover)

2025 1-4955-1327-0
Historical fiction authors use hindsight when adding to the record of tumultuous times in history. Most clearly described as writing that “dramatizes a specific historical period a few decades at least before the time of writing and focuses on a central character… who is affected directly in some way by real historical dramas,” historical fiction takes readers to a past time and place which is known but unfamiliar. This text investigates historical fiction about disguised female soldiers in the American Civil War whose role in American history is gaining renewed recognition. Three works are discussed: the books Behind Rebel Lines (1988) by Seymour Reit and I Shall Be Near to You (2014) by Erin Lindsay McCabe, and the film My Brother’s War (2005) by Whitney Hamilton. Scrutinizing these narratives is significant because they expand on women’s lives left unexplored or overlooked in canonical Civil War literature and contest the prevailing understandings of nineteenth-century military and gender boundaries.

Women in American Historical Fiction (Hardcover)

2024 1-4955-1301-7
The contents of this book reflect my continuing efforts to increase awareness of marginalized people, and women in particular, who have been overlooked or forgotten by those who record or retell the history of the United States. The contents of this book reflect my continuing efforts to increase awareness of marginalized people, and women in particular, who have been overlooked or forgotten by those who record or retell the history of the United States.