Dr. Laura Dubek
Associate Professor
Director, Lower Division English
Member, Honors Faculty
Member, Graduate Faculty
| B.A., 1990, University of Nebraska; M.A., 1993, University of Nebraska; Ph.D., 2001, University of Iowa. (2002) |
Office: PH 341; Phone/Voice Mail: 904-8156
Dr. Dubek joined the faculty in 2002 and was tenured in 2006. She teaches required courses in literary study, sophomore literature, and (honors) freshman writing; survey courses in African American, Southern, Multicultural, and Black Women's literature; and graduate courses in major African American writers. She also teaches in the Great Books Program for Middle Tennessee prisons. Dr. Dubek's literary criticism has appeared in African American Review, MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, and Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Her most recent work on Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God will be published in Southern Literary Journal; an essay on Richard Wright's Savage Holiday will be featured in a special issue of Mississippi Quarterly honoring the centenary of Wright's birth. Dr. Dubek serves as an advisor for English majors and minors, and when she's not in her office, you might find her walking her dog Layla along Middle Tennessee Boulevard .
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