Ball State University
Site Map
Questions
Search BSU's Website
 
Home Index
Faculty and Staff


Department of English

Ball State University
Muncie, IN 47306
english@bsu.edu
(765) 285-8580
FAX (765) 285-3765

Admissions Information.

Ball State University.
Muncie, IN 47306.
Copyright © 2008.
Legal Information
Employment
TTY Numbers

Site Index

 

 


Kecia Driver McBride

Associate Professor
Chair of the Department
PhD, University of Tennessee

Office: Robert Bell 268
Phone: (765) 285-8533
E-mail: kdmcbride@bsu.edu

Areas of Specialization

American fiction after 1865; American realism, naturalism & modernism; cinema studies; feminist theory; critical theory

Publications

Book

Articles

  • “Silence and Representational Space in the Art of Susan Glaspell.” In Disclosing Intertextualities: The Stories, Plays, and Novels of Susan Glaspell. Edited by Martha C. Carpentier and Barbara Ozieblo. Rodopi Press, 2006.
  • "Fear, Consumption, and Desire: Naturalism in Ann Petry's The Street." In Twisted from the Ordinary: Essays in American Literary Naturalism. Ed. Mary E. Papke.  Knoxville, University of Tennessee Press, 2003.
  • "'If he eats me, he sure can't swallow me': Separate Spheres and Subversion in the Folk Plays of the Carolina Players." North Carolina Review 9 (2000): 21-42.

Reviews

  • Review of The Master and The Dean: The Literary Criticism of Henry James and William Dean Howells by Rob Davidson. American Literary Realism, Forthcoming 2007.

  • Review of Silent Film Sound by RickAltman. Film Criticism 30.3 (Spring 2006): 79-83.

Courses

Graduate: American Realism & Naturalism, Women in American Literature, Film Theory & Criticism, Literary Theory 2

Undergraduate: American Literature 2, Film and Literature, Introduction to English Studies, Senior Seminar