Patsy J. Daniels
Associate Professor of English
Ph.D., Literature and Criticism, Indiana
University at Pennsylvania
M.A., English, University of Nebraska
B.A., Liberal Studies, University
of Nebraska at Omaha
Office: 451 College of Liberal Arts
Building
Phone: 601.979.1480
E-mail: patsy.j.daniels@jsums.edu
Dr. Patsy J. Daniels earned her B.A. in Liberal Studies from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, her M.A. in English from the University of Nebraska Graduate College, and her Ph.D. in Literature and Criticism from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation, The Voice of the Oppressed in the Language of the Oppressor: A Discussion of Selected Post-Colonial Literature from Ireland, Africa, and America, uses several contemporary theories, notably post-colonialism, feminism, eco-feminism, multi-culturalism, and Bakhtinian dialogics.
Research for this work gave Dr. Daniels expertise in the Harlem Renaissance, Irish literature, and the British Modernists. Other areas strengthened through this research are literary theory, comparative literature, American fiction, and contemporary literature.
In addition, Dr. Daniels has taught Native American literature at the undergraduate level and participated in a five-week study of American Indian Ethno-history at the University of Oklahoma in the summer of 2007. She also participated in a three-week study of Asian Studies at the University of Hawaii in the summer of 2005.
Besides publishing her dissertation as a volume in the Routledge series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory, Dr. Daniels has published on such disparate authors as Joseph Conrad, William Butler Yeats, Emily Dickinson, and Jack Kerouac. She regularly makes presentations at local, regional, national, and international conferences.
Dr. Daniels serves as Editor for the Jackson State University Researcher: An Interdisciplinary Journal and evaluates articles for publication for College Literature and LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory.
Dr. Daniels proposed, planned, and carried out, with colleague Elizabeth S. Overman from the History and Philosophy Department, Jackson State University’s first Faculty-Led Study Abroad. They taught World Literature and World History to JSU students in Beijing for three weeks in the summer of 2007.
Courses she has taught at Jackson State University are
| Graduate: Classical and World Literature I and II Survey of Grammar American Literature Survey Advanced Lab Writing |
Undergraduate: Composition I and II Honors Composition I and II World Literature Honors World Literature Twentieth-Century American Fiction Milton Literary Criticism |
Before coming to Jackson State University, Dr. Daniels taught at Lane College for six years, at Tennessee State University for four years, and at Austin Peay State University for four years.
Titles of student research projects that she has directed or is directing include
• Cultural Linguistics: Understanding the Paramount Phenomena of Language Rebirth and Language Evolution among African American College Students
• Otherness in Female Adolescents in Three Bildungsromanen: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Member of the Wedding, and To Kill a Mockingbird
• An Ethical Reconsideration of D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers
• Women of the Harlem Renaissance
• Calibanic Discourse in Three Writers of the Harlem Renaissance: Wallace Thurman, Rudolph Fisher, and Langston Hughes