Deborah E. McDowell (born 1951) is a scholar, author and member of the University of Virginia faculty since 1987 where she serves as the Alice Griffin professor of Literary Studies.[1][2] In 2008 professor McDowell was named director of the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies, at the University of Virginia.[1]
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 careeredit
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.
In 2018, she was awarded the Zintl Leadership Award by the Maxine Platzer Lynn Women's Center.[3]
Publicationsedit
(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)
deborah, mcdowell, born, 1951, scholar, author, member, university, virginia, faculty, since, 1987, where, serves, alice, griffin, professor, literary, studies, 2008, professor, mcdowell, named, director, carter, woodson, institute, african, american, african,. Deborah E McDowell born 1951 is a scholar author and member of the University of Virginia faculty since 1987 where she serves as the Alice Griffin professor of Literary Studies 1 2 In 2008 professor McDowell was named director of the Carter G Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia 1 Deborah E McDowellAwardsHonorary Doctorate Purdue University Helen Homans Gilbert Prize Lectureship Harvard University Zintl Leadership AwardAcademic backgroundAlma materPurdue UniversityThesis Women on Women The Black Woman Writer of the Harlem Renaissance Jessie Fauset Nella Larsen Zora Neale Hurston Academic workInstitutionsUniversity of Virginia Carter G Woodson Institute of African American and African StudiesMain interestsAfrican American Literature and Culture Women s Literature Contents 1 Early life 2 Academic and writing career 3 Publications 4 References 5 External linksEarly life editMcDowell 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 editMcDowell 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 In 2018 she was awarded the Zintl Leadership Award by the Maxine Platzer Lynn Women s Center 3 Publications edit 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 amp 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 edit a b Bromley Anne Deborah E McDowell named Carter G Goodson Institute Director at the University of Virginia UVA Today April 23 2008 Upcoming Events Trailblazer Deborah McDowell Chosen for Zintl Leadership Award UVA Today 2018 08 29 Retrieved 2023 02 17 External links editLeaving Pipe Shop page at the University of Virginia website nbsp This biography of an American English academic is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Deborah E McDowell amp oldid 1153073409, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
