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: 401 College of Liberal Arts Building
Phone: 601.979.1480
E-mail: patsy.j.daniels@jsums.edu

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, Associate Professor.
Lane College, Jackson, Tennessee, Assistant, Associate Professor.
Tennessee State University, Nashville, Tennessee, Instructor.
Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee, Instructor.
University of Nebraska, Omaha, Nebraska, undergraduate tutor, graduate teaching     assistant.

Teaching

While I am new to the faculty at Jackson State University, my teaching experience is long and varied. I actually started teaching English while I was an undergraduate at the University of Nebraska at Omaha as an English Department tutor for freshman composition classes. I also taught there in an individualized program as a graduate student Teaching Assistant. I taught developmental writing and composition at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee from fall 1988 through spring 1993. At Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee I taught both writing and various literatures as a full-time adjunct instructor for the four years that it took to earn my terminal degree. I taught all English courses during my six years at Lane College in Jackson, Tennessee and directed the research of two Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellows there. During the summer of 2001, I spent several weeks lecturing at the Graduate Schools of the Chinese Academy for Social Sciences in Beijing, including the Graduate Schools for Youth Politics and for Foreign Trade. My peers at Lane afforded me the honor of being selected as Faculty Member of the Year for 2001-02 for “excellence in teaching, research, and service,” an honor which makes me very proud.

Presentations and Publications

Click here for a list of presentations; click here for a list of publications.

Other Scholarly Activities

For the past five years I have reviewed Composition manuscripts for possible publication for Pearson Education. And I have been serving as a reader-evaluator for the quarterly journal LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, published at the University of Connecticut, for the last four years.

In addition, I have served as an Area Coordinator for the National Association for Hispanic and Latino/a Studies and as a member of the Board of Directors for the National Association for Native American Studies and am still an active participant in these organizations. Other memberships in professional organizations include the Modern Language Association and the National Council for Teachers of English. As well, for the last five years I have been actively involved in the International English Honor Society, Sigma Tau Delta, as faculty adviser for the chapter at Lane College and serve as co-sponsor for the chapter at Jackson State University, along with Dr. Iely Mohammed.

Teaching and Research Interests

There is nothing that I am not interested in. But my degree is in Literature and Criticism, so, as is to be expected, I am interested in the practice of critical theories. And while I can certainly talk about abstract theories, what I really enjoy is the application of different theories to different kinds of literature, even re-reading old works through a new lens. I have worked with American, English, and World literatures, from beginnings to present. I have worked extensively with the British modernists, with literatures of oppressed, and intensively with contemporary American minority women writers.

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