". . . though it is sometimes very difficult to imagine our nation totally free of racism and sexism, my intellect, my heart and my experience tell me that it is actually possible. For that day when neither exists we must all struggle."

-James Baldwin

Office phone: 847.735.5283
dozier@lfc.edu

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
African American Literature and Theory, Gender Studies, Early American
Literature

COURSES TAUGHT
ENGL 100 English Composition
ENGL 110 Introduction to Literary Studies
ENGL 216 African American Literature I: Slave Narratives
ENGL 217 African American Literature II: Harlem Renaissance
ENGL 218 Blues Women in African American Literature
ENGL 325 Black Literature of the 1960s
ENGL 351 Junior Colloquium: Gender and Literature
AFAM 310 Introduction to the African Novel in English

PUBLICATIONS
"Unlearning Racism: The Classroom as Community." ERIC Clearinghouse on
Reading, English, and Communication database, Indiana University. 2001.

Review of Deborah E. McDowell, The Changing Same": Black Women’s
Literature, Criticism, and Theory (Bloomington: Indiana University
Press, 1995), for Rocky Mountain Review of Language & Literature 50.2
(1996): 197-98.

"God’s Work." U.S. Catholic Magazine. Feb. 1995: 26-27. (fiction)

"Calvin Jones: Painter." COLORLINES Magazine Dec. 1992: 14.
(non-fiction)

"Momma’s Legacy." NOMMO 3 Anthology. Ed. Toni McConnell.
Chicago: OBAhouse Press, 1992. 73-74. (poetry)

"Shop Talk." NOMMO Anthology. Ed. Carole A. Parks. Chicago: OBAhouse
Press, 1987. 167-175. (play excerpt)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
"Unlearning Racism: The Classroom as Community." Paper delivered at
the NCTE conference in Milwaukee, WI, 2000

"African American Female Authors: An Overview." Paper presented at the
African American Women in the Arts Conference sponsored by ETA Creative
Arts Foundation, 1991.