English & Philosophy    
         
Alumni
Department Newsletter
Faculty
Graduate Programs
Jesse Stuart Kentucky Writers Series
Prospective Students
Reading Series
Scholarships
Shakespeare Festival
Student Organizations
Undergraduate Programs
 
 
Faculty Photo  
Dr. Laura Dawkins
Associate Professor of English
Coordinator of Graduate Studies
 
Joined MSU in 2000
 
Education
 
PhD, Indiana University
MA, University of Kentucky
Graduate Certificate, Oxford University
BA, University of Louisville
 
 
Areas of Interest
 
Twentieth-Century American Literature; African-American Literature; Gender Studies; Race Theory
 
 
Recent Works
 

Books:

"Black Babies, White Hysteria: The Dark Child in African-American Literature of the Harlem Renaissance." THE AMERICAN CHILD: A CULTURAL STUDIES READER. Eds. Caroline F. Levander and Carol J. Singley. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2003. 167-83.

"From Madonna to Medea: Maternal Infanticide in African-American Women's Literature of the Harlem Renaissance." LIT: LITERATURE INTERPRETATION THEORY. Special Issue on "Literary Murderesses," Fall 2004.
 
 
  Laura Dawkins
7C-18 Faculty Hall
Murray State University
Murray, Kentucky 42071

Phone: 270.809.3418
Fax: 270.809.4545
         
CHFA Home | Department Home | Department Directory
         
Murray State University  
Disclaimer     Privacy Statement
© 2003 Murray State University