Associate Professor
Director of Master of Arts in Literature, Master of Arts Generalist
Director, Frederick Douglass Institute for Intercultural Research
Office: 341 Sutton Hall
Phone: 724-357-4072
E-mail:Veronica.Watson@iup.edu
Education
Ph.D., Rice University, 1997
Academic Interests
The Literature of White Estrangement/White Life Fiction, African American Literature & Culture, Critical Whiteness Studies, 20th century American Fiction, Slave Narratives
Publications
- “Lillian B. Horace and the Literature of White Estrangement: Rediscovering an African American Intellectual of the Jim Crow Era.” Mississippi Quarterly. FORTHCOMING, Winter 2011.
- “Demythologizing Whiteness in Frank Yerby’s The Foxes of Harrow.” Journal of Ethnic American Literature 1 (2011): 92-110.
- “The Next Step: Teach(ing) an African American Counter-Narrative to Whiteness.” Teaching Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education: Perspectives from North America. Emily Horowitz, ed. 2008.
- "A Teacher’s View of Virtual Harlem." Configuring History: Teaching the Harlem Renaissance through Virtual Reality Cityscapes. James Sosnoski, Patricia Harkin and Bryan Carter, eds. 2006.
- “Incorporating Metaphors: Victimization and Empowerment in Gayl Jones' Eva's Man.” Black Liberation in the Americas. Fritz Gysin and Christopher Mulvey, eds. LIT Verlag of Hamburg, 2001.
