Deborah Chappel-Traylor, Ph.D., Associate Professor, English

Contact Information:
Phone:  870.972.3278
Office:  Wilson Hall 221B
Email:  dchappel@astate.edu

 

 

 

Education:
B.S.E. English, Arkansas State University, 1986
M.A. English, Duke University, 1989
Ph.D. English Duke University

Specialties:
19th and 20th Century American Literature, Gender Theory (Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies), Cultural Theory, Popular Culture Theory and Genres.

Courses Regularly Taught:
Women Writers
American Realism and Naturalism
American Novel
American Literature to 1865
Southern Literature

Research:
" LaVyrle Spencer and the Anti-Essentialist Argument," Paradoza: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2 (1997): 107-20

Drama, Ed. Jeffrey D. Hoeper, James H. Pickering, and Deborah K. Chappel. New York: Macmillan, 1994

"The Stories We Tell: Acknowledging Emotion in the Classroom," Association of Departments of English Bulletin (Fall 1992): 20-23.

"Pa Says: The Rhetoric of Faulkner's Anse Burdren," Mississippi Quarterly (Summer 1991): 273-85

Current Project:
Importance of Seeing Faulkner as a Delta Writer


Honors/Awards:
Steven L. Mayes Honors Program Teaching Award (for directing senior honors thesis)