Laura Quinn

Title: Professor
Title 2: Sabbatic – Spring Semester
Department: English
Degrees: B.A., Ph.D., University of Minnesota

Research Fields of Interest :  African American Literature, African Literature, Marxism and Literature.

Contact Info

Email: laura.quinn@allegheny.edu
Phone: (814) 332-4337
Website: Click here

Office Info

Office Location: Oddfellows room #233

Office Hours: FALL 2012- TBA

Courses and Syllabi
Spring 2012
English 200*03: Reading Literature Download Syllabus
English 302*00: Forms of Poetry: Elegy Download Syllabus
English 460*00: Topics in Postcolonial Literature Download Syllabus

Fall 2011
English 200*04: Reading Literature  Download Syllabus
English 204*00: Emerging Traditions in US Lit Download Syllabus
English/POLSC 391*00: Politics adn Literature Download Syllabus

Spring 2010
FS102: Reading the Riot Act | » Download Syllabus
ENGL 204: Alternative Traditions in American Literature | » Download Syllabus
INTDS 320: Science & the Transformation of American Life | » Download Syllabus

Fall 2009
ENGL 200: Reading Literature | » Download Syllabus
ENGL 313:Studies in a Major Author | » Download Syllabus
ENGL 550: Junior Seminar | » Download Syllabus

Spring 2009
ENGL 204: Alternative Traditions in American Literature | » Download Syllabus
ENGL 391/POLYSCI 391: Politics and Literature/Marxism | » Download Syllabus
FS 102W6: “Reading the Riot Act”

Fall 2008
ENGL 200: Reading Literature (two sections) | » Download Syllabus
ENGL 465: Topics in Nineteenth Century American Literature | » Download Syllabus

Spring 2008
WS 100: Introduction to Women’s Studies
WS 200: Feminist Theory | » Download Syllabus
FS 102W: “Race and Representation”

Fall 2007
ENGL 204: Alternative Traditions in American Literature | » Download Syllabus
ENGL 200: Reading Literature | » Download Syllabus
WS 580: Women’s Studies Junior Seminar “Women’s Radicalization Narratives”

Spring 2007
ENGL 551: Junior Seminar: The African American Slave Novel | » Download Syllabus
INTDS 210: Introduction to Black Studies
WS 200: Feminist Theory

Fall 2006
WS 580: Women’s Studies Junior Seminar “Critical Race Feminism”
FS 102: “Race and Representation”

Spring 2006
INTDS 210: Introduction to Black Studies
ENGL 200: 200 Reading Literature (two sections) | » Download Syllabus

Fall 2005
ENGL 610 (now 630): Senior Project Seminar: Literature and Violence | » Download Syllabus
ENGL 204: Alternative Traditions in American Literature | » Download Syllabus
ENGL 200: Reading Literature | » Download Syllabus

Publications

Essays

    • *Quinn, Laura. “The Mouse Will Play: The Parodic in Walter Mosley’s Fiction.” Finding a Way Home: A Critical Assessment of Walter Mosley’s Fiction. Ed. Owen Brady and Derek Maus. Jackson: U Mississippi Press, 2008. 121-132.
    • Quinn, Laura. “The Politics of Law and Order.” Journal of American and Comparative Culture. Ed.2003.
    • *Quinn, Laura. “’Melodramatic Maybe, It Seems to Me Now”: Langston Hughes and the Underwritten Self.” A Sea of Stories: The Shaping Power of Narrative in Gay and Lesbian Cultures. Ed. Sonya Jones. New York: Haworth Press, 2000. 95-107.
    • Quinn, Laura. “’What is Going On Here?’: Baldwin’s Another Country.” Gay and Lesbian Literature Since World War II. Ed. Sonya Jones. New York: Haworth Press. 1998. 51-66.
    • Quinn, Laura. “Native Son as Project,” in Teaching Approaches to Native Son. Ed. James Miller. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1997 (in The MLA Approaches to Teaching World Literature Series). 42-47.
    • Quinn, Laura. Entries on Zora Neale Hurston, Bell Hooks, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Hazel Carby for The Dictionary of Feminist Literary Theory. Garland Press.1996.
    • Quinn, Laura. “Trifles as Treason: Coming to Consciousness as Gendered Readers.” Reader Response in the Classroom: Evoking Reader Response and Interpreting Meaning in Literature. Ed. Nicholas Karolides: Longman, November 1991. Second Edition, Lawrence, Erlbaum Associates, London, 2000. 239-253.
    • Quinn, Laura. “Moby Dick Meets Big Nurse: A Feminist Defense of a Misogynist Text.” Censored Books: Critical Viewpoints. Ed. Nicholas Karolides, Lee Burress, John M. Kean. New Jersey: Scarecrow, 1993. 398-413.
    • Quinn, Laura. “Coming from Behind: Women’s Studies at University of Wisconsin-River Falls.” University Women. Volume 4. University of Wisconsin Press, 1992.

 

Conference Papers

  • “Aging into Allegory: The Late Work of Du Bois and Gordimer,” to be delivered at the African Literature Association Conference, University of Vermont, Burlington. (April 2009)
  • “Stranger and Alone: J. Saunders Redding’s Cold War Academic Novel,” delivered at International Narrative Conference, Austin, Texas. (May 2008)
  • “Reel Racism Redux: The Tenacity of Hollywood’s Whiteness,” presented at the National Popular Culture and American Culture Conference, San Francisco. (April 2008)
  • “No Stranger to Treason: 24 and the Profiling of the Black Woman,” delivered at the National Popular Culture and American Culture Conference, Boston. (April 2007)
  • “The Outing of Whiteness in African American Literature,” presented at the Race and Pedagogy National Conference, University of Puget Sound. (September 2006)
  • “Of Rats and Men: A Reading of Wright’s The Man Who Lived Underground” delivered at the American Literature Association Conference, San Francisco. (May 2006)
  • “Narrative as Repudiation: Ann Petry’s The Street and Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Dilemma presented at International Narrative Conference, Ottawa. (April 2006)
  • “Ann Petry’s Cold War Lynching Novel: Race and Deradicalization” delivered at National Association of African American Studies Conference, Baton Rouge. (February, 2006)
  • “Narrow and Marrows: The Repudiation of Regionalism in Ann Petry’s Fiction” presented at International Narrative Conference, University of Kentucky, Louisville. (April 2005)
  • “Ironizing the Discourses of Violence: Nadine Gordimer’s Post-Apartheid Novels” presented at the Symposium on Geopolitical Violence and Literature, University of Oregon. (February 26 , 2005)
  • “The Mouse Will Play: Stylization in Walter Moseley’s Fiction” delivered at NEMLA, Boston. (March 2003)
  • “Ann Petry’s Cold War Lynching Novel” presented at Conference on Race and Racism in Film and Literature, West Virginia University, Morgantown. (October, 2002)
  • “A Case Study in the Ethics of Fiction: Gordimer’s None to Accompany Me and Coetzee’s Disgrace as Post-Apartheid Fictions” presented at the International Narrative Conference, East Lansing. (April 11-14, 2002)
  • “The Post-Apartheid Novels of Nadine Gordimer,” guest lecture delivered at University of Vermont. (April 4, 2002)
  • “The Politics of Law and Order” presented at the Popular Culture Conference, Toronto. (March 13-17, 2002)
  • “Interdisciplinarity as an Outreach Strategy” delivered at Association of University English Teachers of South Africa, Bloemfontein. (April 2000)

Awards

  • Awarded the Frederick R. Seely Endowed Chair in English. (January 2001)
  • Fulbright Visiting Professor at University of Fort Hare in South Africa. (Jan.-Dec. 2000)
  • National Endowment for the Humanities six-week Summer Seminar at University of Kansas, with William L. Andrews on Slave Narrative and Contemporary Novelizations of the Slave Experience. (1991)
  • College-wide Thoburn Prize for Innovative Teaching, Allegheny College. (1997)
  • Pelletier Award for Contribution to African-American Studies, Allegheny College, given by the Black Student Association. (1990)