Deborah Mix Assistant Professor of English Director of Graduate Studies Ph.D., Purdue University Office: Robert Bell 385 Phone: (765) 285-8401 E-mail: dmmix@bsu.edu

Areas of Specialization

Twentieth-century American literature; American poetry; U.S. ethnic literatures; feminist literature and literary theory; postmodern literature and literary theory

Publications

Book

• A Vocabulary of Thinking: Gertrude Stein and Contemporary North American Women’s Innovative Writing. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 2007.

Articles

• “Tender Revisions: Harryette Mullen’s Trimmings and S*PeRM**K*T.” American Literature, forthcoming.
• “Shaking the American Tree: Traditions of Innovative American Poetry by Women.” Sagetrieb, forthcoming.
• “An Erotics of Collaboration: Daphne Marlatt and Betsy Warland’s Double Negative.” Contemporary Literature. 41 (2000): 219-319.
• “Reading the Way She Writes: Critical In(ter)ventions.” How2 1.4 (2000).
• “‘A vulnerable known not sure’: Metonymy and/as Transformation.” How2 1.3 (2000).

Courses

Graduate: Feminist American Poetry, Studies in U.S. Ethnic Literature

Undergraduate: American Literature 2; Contemporary American Literature; Twentieth-Century American Fiction