Alice A. Deck Associate Professor Office: 310 English Office Phone: 333-1538 email

Courses

ENGLISH 259: AFRO-AMERICAN LITERATURE I

ENGLISH 260: AFRO-AMERICAN LITERATURE II

ENGLISH 274: LITERATURE AND SOCIETY
TOPIC: American Slavery and the Black Literary Imagination

AMERICAN SLAVERY AND THE BLACK LITERARY IMAGINATION

ENGLISH 280: WOMEN WRITERS
TOPIC: Black Women's Autobiography

ENGLISH 455: MAJOR AUTHORS
TOPIC: Toni Morrison/Chinua Achebe

Publications (selected)

"Postcolonial Embodiment in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby". Jami L. Carlacio, ed., The Fiction of Toni Morrison: Reading and Writing Race, Culture, and Identity. (Urbana: NCTE, 2007), 67-76.

“The Mammy/Aunt Jemima as an American Icon: Toni Morrison Responds.” Holbling, K. Rieser & S. Rieser, eds. US Icons and Iconicity (American Studies in Austria, vol 4.) LiT VERLAG, 2006, 155-166.

“’Now Then—Who Said Biscuits?’ The Black Woman Cook as Fetish in American Advertising, 1905-1953”. Sherrie A. Inness, ed. Kitchen Culture in America: Popular Representations of Food, Gender and Race . Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. 69-93.

“Autoethnography: Zora Neale Hurston, Noni Jabavu, and Cross-Disciplinary Discourse”. Black American Literature Forum, vol. 24, no.2 (Summer 1990). 237-256.

“’Whose Book is This’: Authorial versus Editorial Control of Harriet Brent Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself. Womens’ Studies International Forum, vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 33-40, 1987.