Deborah E. McDowell
| Deborah E. McDowell | |
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| Awards | Honorary Doctorate, Purdue University, Helen Homans Gilbert Prize Lectureship, Harvard University |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Purdue University |
| Thesis title | "Women on Women: The Black Woman Writer of the Harlem Renaissance--Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston" |
| Academic work | |
| 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
- The Punitive Turn: New Approaches to Race and Incarceration (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series), co-editor with Claudrena N. Harold and Juan Battle (2013)
- Leaving Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin, Simon & Schuster/Scribners (1997) ISBN 0-684-81449-8
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, by Frederick Douglass and Deborah E. McDowell. Oxford World's Classics (1999)
- The Changing Same: Black Women's Literature, Criticism, and Theory (1994)
- Four Girls at Cottage City (The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers) (1991)
- Plum Bun: A Novel Without A Moral (Black Women Writers Series), by Jessie Redmon Fauset and Deborah E. McDowell (1990)
- Slavery and the Literary Imagination (Selected Papers from the English Institute),by Deborah E. McDowell and Arnold Rampersad (1989)
References
External links
- Leaving Pipe Shop page at the University of Virginia website
- Works by or about McDowell, Deborah E. 1951- in libraries (WorldCat catalog)