Alma mater Purdue University Name Deborah McDowell | Role Author Education Tuskegee University | |
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Institutions University of Virginia, Carter G. Woodson Institute of African-American and African Studies Thesis "Women on Women: The Black Woman Writer of the Harlem RenaissanceJessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston" Main interests African-American Literature and Culture,Women's Literature Notable awards Honorary Doctorate, Purdue University, Helen Homans Gilbert Prize Lectureship, Harvard University Books "The Changing Same": Black Women's Literature, Criticism, and Theory, Leaving Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin | ||
Deborah e mcdowell addresses uva s class of 2017
Deborah E. McDowell (born 1951) is a scholar, author and member of the university of Virginia faculty since 1987 where she serves as Alice Griffin professor of Literary Studies. In 2008 professor McDowell was named director of the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies, at the University of Virginia.
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- Deborah e mcdowell addresses uva s class of 2017
- Early life
- Academic and writing career
- Publications
- References
Early life
Mcdowell was born and raised in Bessemer, Alabama. She wrote about her childhood in her debut memoir Leaving Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin.
Academic and writing career
McDowell received a B.A. from Tuskegee University, and M.A. and Ph.D. from Purdue University. She has been on the faculty of the University of Virginia since 1987. She founded the African-American Women Writers Series at Beacon Press, and was its editor from 1985 to 1993. Deborah McDowell was featured in the documentary Unearthed and Understood.