Karen Chandler
Appointments
- Associate Professor
Departments
Location
- Room 305
- Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus
Phone Number
- 502-852-5568
Email Address
Website
Bio
Office Hours:
11:00-11:50 a.m. on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and by appointment
English Courses Recently Taught:
ENGL 310 - 05: Writing About Literature (Spring, 2008)
ENGL 402 - 02: Ar. American and Hispanic Children's Culture (Spring, 2008)
ENGL 311 - 01: American Literature I (Fall, 2007)
ENGL 323 - 01: African American Literature 1845 to the Present (Fall, 2007)
ENGL 310 - 07: Writing About Literature (Spring, 2007)
ENGL 323 - 01: African American Literature 1845 to the Present (Spring, 2007)
ENGL 311 - 01: American Literature I (Fall, 2006)
ENGL 660 - 01: African American Lit (Fall, 2006)
ENGL 372 - 01: The City and Black America (Spring, 2006)
ENGL 686 - 01: African American Narratives of Urban Experience (Spring, 2006)
Educational Background
- Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania
Teaching Areas
- American Literature, African-American Literature, Film, Literacy Studies
Research Interests
- African-American literature; American and African-American film; genre studies; African-American vernacular culture; children's literature; literacy; creative nonfiction
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