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Dr. Priscilla Leder Professor of English Texas State University-San Marcos (512) 245-3714 At Texas State since 1988 Fulbright lectureship in Belgium, 2006 Fulbright Lectureship in Portugal, 2000 Ph.D., the University of California, Irvine, 1981 |
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COURSES TAUGHT Graduate Seminars: Introduction to Literary Studies Flannery O'Connor American Women Writers at the Turn of the Twentieth Century American Women Regional Writers American Women Writers & the Sense of Place Honors Courses Race and Slavery in American Literature Gender and Fiction Comedy: Form and Function, Frivolity and Filth |
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RESEARCH INTERESTS Nineteenth and Twentieth Century American Women Writers, including: Kate Chopin Fannie Hurst, Sarah Orne Jewett, Flannery O'Connor, Julia Peterkin, Alice Walker, and Edith Wharton. I am currently compiling a collection of critical essays on Barbara Kingsolver. |
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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY “The Maternal Return: Julia Peterkin's Scarlet Sister Mary,” Mississippi Quarterly 59.1 (Winter 2005-06), 65-76. “Kate Chopin's Letter to the World: 'Elizabeth Stock's One Story,'" Amerikastudien/American Studie: A Quarterly. 49.2 (2004), 159-171. “Men With Women: Gender Relations in Richard Ford's Rock Springs,” Perspectives on Richard Ford. Ed. Huey Guagliardo. The University Press of Mississipi, May 2000, 97-120. “Visions of New England: The Anxiety of Jewett's Influence on Ethan Frome,” Jewett and Her Contemporaries: Centennial Essays. Ed. Karen Kilcup & Thomas S. Edwards. Gainesville, The University of Florida Press, 1999, 167-181. “Land's End: The Awakening and 19th-Century Literary Tradition,” Critical Essays on Kate Chopin. Ed. Alice Hall Petry. New York: G. K. Hall & Co. 1996. 237-250. “Living Ghosts and Women's Religion in Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs,” in Haunting the House of Fiction: Feminist Perspectives on Women's Ghost Stories, edited by Lynette Carpenter and Wendy Kolmar. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1991, 26-40. “Alice Walker's American Quilt: The Color Purple and American Literary Tradition.” Critical Essays on Alice Walker. Ed. Ikenna Dieke. Westport, Connecticut, 1999, 141-151. |
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Undergraduate Courses Women and Literature The American Novel American literature 1865-1930 American literature 1865-present Literature and the Contemporary Reader College Writing I and II |
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LINKS My former student Kim Wells' award-winning women writers site http://www.womenwriters.net/domesticgoddess/ The Université Catholique de Louvain, where I taucht in Spring http://www.uclouvain.be/ The Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD) , where I taught in Spring 2000 http://www.utad.pt The San Marcos Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, where I am an active member and president 2004/05 http//www.smuuf.org |