{"id":3176,"date":"2014-05-19T11:08:17","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T18:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=3176"},"modified":"2018-11-20T11:00:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T18:00:07","slug":"mcdowell-deborah-e-1951","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=3176","title":{"rendered":"MCDOWELL, DEBORAH E., 1951-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Author; University professor of literature.\u00a0 Born&#8211; Bessemer, 1951.\u00a0 Parents&#8211;\u00a0 Wiley and Jimmye Ziegler McDowell.\u00a0 Education&#8211;Tuskegee Institute, B.A., 1972; \u00a0Purdue University.\u00a0 M.A., 1974; Ph. D., 1979. Professor of English at Colby College, 1979-87; at the University of Virginia, 1987-.\u00a0 Director of the Carter G. Woodson Center for African American and African Studies at UVA, 2008- .\u00a0 Appointed Alice Griffin Professor of English, 2000.\u00a0 Founder and editor (1985-1993) of the Beacon Press African-American Women Writers Series. Received the Elizabeth Zintl Leadership Award from the UVA Maxine Platzer Women&#8217;s Center, 2018.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Changing Same: Studies in Fiction by Black Women.\u00a0Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.<\/p>\n<p>Leaving Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin.\u00a0 Scribner, 1996.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Douglass, Frederick.\u00a0 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.\u00a0 Oxford University Press, 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Fauset, Jessie.\u00a0 Plum Bun.\u00a0 London:\u00a0 Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985.<\/p>\n<p>Hopkins,\u00a0 Pauline.\u00a0 Of One Blood.\u00a0 Simon and Shuster, 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Hurston, Zora Neale.\u00a0 Moses, Man of the Mountain.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Harper and Row, 1990.<\/p>\n<p>Kelley, Emma Dunham.\u00a0 Four Girls at Cottage City.\u00a0 Oxford University Press, 1988.<\/p>\n<p>Larsen, Nella.\u00a0 Quicksand, and Passing [2 short novels].\u00a0 New Brunswick:\u00a0 Rutgers University Press, 1986.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Co-Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Slavery and the Literary Imagination.\u00a0 Johns Hopkins, 1988.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contributor;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader.\u00a0 New York: Routledge, 1993.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography; Author; University professor of literature.\u00a0 Born&#8211; Bessemer, 1951.\u00a0 Parents&#8211;\u00a0 Wiley and Jimmye Ziegler McDowell.\u00a0 Education&#8211;Tuskegee Institute, B.A., 1972; \u00a0Purdue University.\u00a0 M.A., 1974; Ph. D., 1979. Professor of English at Colby College, 1979-87; at the University of Virginia, 1987-.\u00a0 Director of the Carter G. Woodson Center for African American and African Studies at UVA, 2008- [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-m-o"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3176"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9072,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176\/revisions\/9072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}