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词条 Deborah E. McDowell
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  1. Early life

  2. Academic and writing career

  3. Publications

  4. References

  5. External links

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}}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

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3. ^Bromley, Anne. "Deborah E. McDowell named Carter G. Goodson Institute Director at the University of Virginia." UVA Today. April 23, 2008.

External links

  • Leaving Pipe Shop page at the University of Virginia website
  • {{worldcat id|id=lccn-n85-170538|name=McDowell, Deborah E. 1951-}}
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