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Contact Information:
463 Bartlett Hall
UMass
Amherst, MA 0l003
p: 413-545-5514
f: 413-545-3880
carlin@english.umass.edu
Last Modified: January 2006
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Deborah Carlin is a Professor of American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she has taught since 1987. She holds a B.A. (1979), magna cum laude , in Literature (English & French) from the University of California, San Diego, and an M.A. (1983) and Ph.D. (1987) in English and American Literature from Harvard University, as well as a Master's Degree in Clinical Social Work from Smith College (1994). She has twice won distinguished teaching awards, at Harvard University (1984) and at UMass Amherst (1996).
She is the author of Cather, Canon, and the Politics of Reading (1992), and the editor of Queer Cultures (2003), a course textbook and essay anthology. Professor Carlin has published several articles and reviews on Willa Cather and on Cather scholarship, as well as on Edith Wharton, African American literary criticism and theory, 19th-Century American women's philanthropic fiction, trauma, narrative, and multiple personality, graduate internship programs in the humanities, and on queer theory and the American novel. Her most recent article is entitled "For Me and My Gal: Queer(y)ing Judy Garland."
Her teaching interests within English span 19th- and 20th-Century U.S. literature, film, art and cultural studies and include the novel in U.S. literature, African-American literature, contemporary fiction, American women's literature and culture, narrative theory, queer theory, and trauma and narrative representation.
Professor Carlin is currently editing an edition of Sarah Orne Jewett's Country of the Pointed Firs for Broadview Press. Future article projects include “'The Shadowed Figure': Abuse and Sexual Identity in Jim Grimsley's Dream Boy , ” and “Reflective Nostalgia and the Fantasy of American History in Geoff Ryman's Was . ” Her long-term scholarly book project is a new historicist and feminist investigation of women, labor, class, and economics in U.S. fiction and film from 1890-1945. She is also working on a novel, Rappings , about Kate Fox, the youngest of the two sisters who began the spiritualist movement in the U.S. in 1848.
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