Andrea Powell Wolfe specializes in twentieth-century American literature and has published in journals such as Journal of Modern Literature, Journal of American Culture, and The Southern Quarterly.
Professional Experience
Assistant Professor of English
2011-present
Curriculum Vitae
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Education
PhD in American Literature
Ball State University, 2010
MA in Literature
Ball State University, 2004
BA in English
Ball State University, 2002
Research and Publications
- "The Subordination of Embodied Power: Sentimental Representations of the Black Maternal Body in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin." the quint: an interdisciplinary quarterly from the north 8.4 (2016):85-113.
- “Refiguring La Malinche: Female ‘Betrayal’ as Cultural Negotiation in the Short Stories of María Cristina Mena." Label Me Latina/o 3.1 (2013): no pagination.
- “The Subversive Potential of the Abjected Black Maternal Body in Lillian Smith’s Strange Fruit.” Flannery O’Connor Review 8 (2010).
- “Queering Texas: Interview with Del Shores.” The Southern Quarterly 47.1 (2009): 104-20.
- “Chasing the ‘Coloured Phantom’: Gender Performance as Revealing and Concealing Modernist Ideology in Millay's Sonnets.” Journal of American Culture 32.2 (2009): 155-64.
- “Double-Voicedness in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: ‘Loud Talking’ to a Northern Black Readership.” American Transcendental Quarterly 22.3 (2008): 517-25.
- “(Re)visioning the Cinderella Myth: Sylvia Plath’s Bee Poems.” Interactions 17.2 (2008): 111-23.
- “Problematizing Polygyny in Achebe’s Historical Novels: The Role of the Western Feminist Scholar.” Research in African Literatures 39.1 (2008): 166-84. Rpt. in Things Fall Apart—Chinua Achebe (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations). Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House Publications, 2009. (listed under Andrea Powell)
- “Jane and Bertha in Polly Teale's Jane Eyre.” Journal of Drama Studies 2.1 (2008): 34-41. (listed under Andrea Powell)
- “Living the Legacy of the Southern Belle: Ellen Gilchrist's Rhoda in ‘1957, a Romance.’” The Ellen Glasgow Journal of Southern Women Writers 1.2 (2008): 1-18.
- “’The last . . . thing one needed to know’: Kristeva’s ‘Herethics’ in Evelyn Scott’s The Narrow House and Escapade.” Journal of Modern Literature 29.3 (2006): 78-102. (listed under Andrea Powell Jenkins)
- “The Shaping of the New Woman in The Rise of Silas Lapham.” MP: An Online Feminist Journal 1.1 (2004): no pagination. (listed under Andrea Powell)
