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Deborah K. Chappel
 
 

P. O. Box 1890

Department of English and Philosophy

Arkansas State University

State University, Arkansas 72467

Work: (870) 972-3043

email: dchappel@astate.edu




Education

    1991 Ph.D. in American Literature, Duke University.
      Dissertation: "American Romances: Narratives of
      Culture and Identity." Directors: Jane Tompkins
      and Janice Radway.
    1989 Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies, Duke
      University.
    1986 B.S.E. in English, In Honors, Magna Cum Laude,
      Arkansas State University.
Teaching Experience
    1996-Present. Associate Professor of English, Arkansas State University.

    1991-1996. Assistant Professor of English, Arkansas State University.

    1987-1991. Instructor in Duke University Writing Program.

    1990. Veteran Assistant (peer mentor), Duke University Writing Program.

    1989-1991. Instructor, Duke University Preview Program, Minority Affairs.

Publications
Book Review of William Faulkner: The Making of a Modernist, by Daniel J. Singal. The Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies (forthcoming).

"LaVyrle Spencer and the Anti-Essentialist Argument," Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2 (1997): 107-20.

Drama, Ed. Jeffrey D. Hoeper, James H. Pickering, and Deborah K. Chappel. New York: Macmillan, 1994.

Book Review of Linda K. Christian Smith's Becoming a Woman Through Romance, Judith Rowbotham's Good Girls Make Good Wives, and Kimberley Reynold's Girls Only? Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (Spring 1993): 674-78.

"The Stories We Tell: Acknowledging Emotion in the Classroom," Association of Departments of English Bulletin (Fall 1992): 20-23.

"Pa Says: The Rhetoric of Faulkner's Anse Bundren," Mississippi Quarterly (Summer 1991): 273-85.

"Domestic Chores," "Who Is a Feminist?" "We're Living Time Lines," "Racism Goes Underground," and "The Clitoris," Engaging Feminism: Classroom Voices for the 1990's, Ed. Jean O'Barr and Mary Wyer. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 1991. 24, 46-7, 52, 75-76, 98.
 
 

Presentations and Conferences

"True Love: Changing Definitions of Love in the Late 20th Century," American Psychological Association, Washington, DC, August 2000.

"Representations of Love in Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail, and Message in a Bottle," Popular Culture Association, New Orleans, April 19-22, 2000.

"True Love: An Examination of Contemporary Representations of Love in Chat Rooms and Movies," College English Association, Charleston, South Carolina, April6-8, 2000.

"Popular Representations of American Expansion in Narratives of Edna Ferber," 20th Century Literature Conference 2000, Louisville, Kentucky, February 24-26, 2000.

"Race and Gender in 20th Century Literature: Images of Otherness in the Narratives of Edna Ferber," South Central Modern Language Association, Memphis, TN, October 28-30, 1999.

"Images of Otherness in the Narratives of Edna Ferber," Arkansas Philological Association, Eureka Springs, Arkansas, October 22-24, 1999.

"Responding to Rage: Teaching Louisa May Alcott's Sensationalist Fiction," College English Association, Philadelphia, April 1999.

"Romancing the Real," Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, Orlando, April 1998.

Session Chair, "The Body As Inscripted Site: Race and Gender in American Literature," South Central Modern Language Association, Dallas, Texas, October 1997.

Featured Guest Speaker, "Romancing the Real," Salisbury State University Lecture Series: Creating the Past, Salisbury, Maryland, March 1997.

Featured Guest Speaker, Washington Romance Writers Annual Retreat at Harper's Ferry, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1998.

"Girl Watching: Representations of the Female Body in Women's Romance," Popular Culture/American Culture Association, New Orleans, April 1993.

"How Sweet Savage Love Kept the Flame from Consuming the Flower: Violence in the 1970's Bodice Ripper," Popular Culture/American Culture Association, Louisville, Kentucky, March 1992.

"The Monster Under the Bed: The Dangers of Decentered Teaching," Modern Language Association, San Francisco, December 1991.

"Revisioning Women's Identity: Jude Deveraux and the Scholars of Women's Romance," Popular Culture/American Culture Association, San Antonio, Texas, March 1991.

Chair, "Theories of the Reader," CCCC, Chicago, March 1991.

"The Hidden Hand: E.D.E.N. Southworth and the Cultural Work of Outlaw Emotions," Talking Across Lines: Celebrating Our Work on Women and Gender, Duke University, November 1990.

"Ride the Thunder, Touch the Wind: New Goals for Women in Janet Dailey's Western Romances," Popular Culture/American Culture Association, St. Louis, Missouri, March 1989.

"Manhattan vs. The Beautiful Beast," Popular Culture Association of the South, Knoxville, Tennessee, October 1988.

Teaching Interests

Women Writers

Popular Culture Studies (Theory and Genres)

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century American Literature

Southern Literature

Feminist Theory




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