Deborah E. McDowell
Deborah E. McDowell | |
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| Awards | Honorary Doctorate, Purdue University, Helen Homans Gilbert Prize Lectureship, Harvard University |
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| Alma mater | Purdue University |
| Thesis | "Women on Women: The Black Woman Writer of the Harlem Renaissance--Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston" |
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| Institutions | University of Virginia, Carter G. Woodson Institute of African-American and African Studies |
| Main interests | African-American Literature and Culture,Women's Literature |
Deborah E. McDowell (born 1951) is a scholar, author and member of the University of Virginia faculty since 1987 where she serves as[1][2] Alice Griffin professor of Literary Studies. In 2008 professor McDowell was named director of the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies, at the University of Virginia.[3]
Early life
McDowell was born and raised in Bessemer, Alabama. She wrote about her childhood in her debut memoir Leaving Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin.
Academic and writing career
McDowell received a B.A. from Tuskegee University, and M.A. and Ph.D. from Purdue University. She has been on the faculty of the University of Virginia since 1987. She founded the African-American Women Writers Series at Beacon Press, and was its editor from 1985 to 1993. Deborah McDowell was featured in the documentary Unearthed and Understood.
Publications
- (ed. with Arnold Rampersad) Slavery and the Literary Imagination (Selected Papers from the English Institute) (1989)
- (ed.) Plum Bun: A Novel Without A Moral (Black Women Writers Series), by Jessie Redmon Fauset (1990)
- (ed.) Four Girls at Cottage City, by Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins (The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers) (1991)
- The Changing Same: Black Women's Literature, Criticism, and Theory (1994)
- Leaving Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin, Simon & Schuster/Scribners (1997), ISBN 0-684-81449-8
- (ed.) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, by Frederick Douglass. Oxford World's Classics (1999)
- (ed. with Claudrena N. Harold and Juan Battle) The Punitive Turn: New Approaches to Race and Incarceration (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series) (2013)
References
- ^ "Deborah e. McDowell Named Carter G. Woodson Institute Director at U.Va". Archived from the original on 2012-08-05. Retrieved 2011-04-08.
- ^ "Upcoming Events".
- ^ Bromley, Anne. "Deborah E. McDowell named Carter G. Goodson Institute Director at the University of Virginia." UVA Today. April 23, 2008.
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