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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

  • Paths to Freedom: Literacy and Folk Traditions in Recent Narratives about Slavery and Emancipation

    Children's Literature Association Quarterly (CLAQ) 31 (2006):3-26

  • Kin Flicks

    "Kin Flicks" in I TO I: Life Writing by Kentucky Feminists, ed. Elizabeth Oakes and Jane Olmsted

  • Making Noise

    "Making Noise" in THESE HANDS I KNOW: AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS ON FAMILY, ed. Afaa Michael Weaver

  • 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
 
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