Margaret Earley Whitt

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University of Denver
Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
English
Associate ProfessorAppointed: 1988

Mailing Address

Pioneer Hall
University of Denver
Denver, Colorado 80208
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (303) 871-2858
Fax: (303) 871-2853
mwhitt@diana.du.edu

Qualifications

Ph.D., University of Denver, English, 1986.
M.A., Florida State University, English, 1969.
B.A., Pfeiffer College, History, 1968.

Expertise and Research Interests

I am presently under contract with the University of South Carolina Press to write the Understanding Gloria Naylor volume for their Understanding Contemporary American Literature series. The book is due July 1997.I am also interested in pedagogy and explaining the ways and means by which we deliver information in a classroom setting.My Cross-Departmental interests are: women's studies; art-English

Keywords

COS Keywords:

African Languages Or Literature, Language or Literature, Pedagogy, Religious Studies, Violence, Violent Behavior, Women's Studies.

Additional Terms:

African-American, American, Autobiography, Grotesque, Harlem, Literature, Manners, Pedagogy, Religion, South, US, Violence, Women, Writers.

Languages

(Reading, Writing, Speaking)

Latin: (Basic, Basic, None)
Spanish: (Basic, Basic, None)

Memberships

Flannery O'Connor Society
Modern Language Association of America
National Council of Teachers of English
National Council of Writing Program Administrators
South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA)

Publications

  • Whitt, Margaret, Letters to Corinth: Echoes from Greece to Georgia in Flannery O'Connor's 'Judgment Day', Literature and Belief, 17, 61-74, 1997
  • Whitt, Margaret, Understanding Flannery O'Connor, Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 1997
  • Whitt, Margaret, From Eros to Agape: Reconsidering the Chain Gang's Song in McCullers's 'Ballad of the Sad Cafe', Studies in Short Fiction, 33, 119-22, Winter 1996
  • Whitt, Margaret. Understanding Gloria Naylor. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 1998
  • Whitt, Margaret. The Bellwether Handbook for Writers. Edina, MN: Burgess, 1991

Profile Details

Last Updated: 3/16/1999

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