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Karen Chandler
Appointments
- Associate Professor
Departments
Location
- Room 305
- Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus
- Office Hours: TTH 11:00-12:15 and by appointment
Phone Number
- 502-852-5568
Email Address
Website
Bio
English Courses Recently Taught:
ENG 603: Studies in Genre: Autobiographical Writing and Film
ENG 420: American Literature, 1865-1910
ENG 423: African American Literature, 1845-the present
ENG 300: Introduction to English Studies
ENG 550: Studies in African American Literature
ENG 686: African American Literature and Criticism
ENG 311: American Literature to 1865
Educational Background
- Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania
Teaching Areas
- American Literature, African-American Literature, Film, Literacy Studies
Research Interests
- I am researching and writing about children’s and young adult literature, American and African American literature and vernacular cultures. Julius Lester is the focus of one current project; literature about and illustrations of jazz performance are the focus of another.
Professional Memberships
- Member, Children's Literature Association
Publications
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Paths to Freedom: Literacy and Folk Traditions in Recent Narratives about Slavery and Emancipation
Children's Literature Association Quarterly (CLAQ) 31 (2006):3-26
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Kin Flicks
"Kin Flicks" in I TO I: Life Writing by Kentucky Feminists, ed. Elizabeth Oakes and Jane Olmsted
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Making Noise
"Making Noise" in THESE HANDS I KNOW: AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS ON FAMILY, ed. Afaa Michael Weaver
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Wonderful Dealings
"'Wonderful Dealings': Making African-American Selfhood Speak Through Colonial Literary Conventions in John Marrant's Conversion and Indian Captivity Narrative" in MAWA REVIEW

