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English Department Faculty

Dr. Karen Jacobsen

Associate Professor

Office:  WH 222

Phone:  333-7354

Email:  kjjacob@valdosta.edu

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  • PhD, University of Arkansas, 2001

  • -author of articles on Ellen Douglass, Mary Murfree, Harriet Spofford, and Edith Wharton.

  • -scholarly papers on Lillie Devereux Blake, Charlotte Bronte, Ellen Douglass, Susan Petigru King, Mary Murfree, Harriet Spofford, Elizabeth Stoddard, Edith Wharton, and on using popular culture in the composition classroom.

  • -Work in progress: study of the transatlantic connections between 19th C. women writers.

  • - Areas of interest: 19th C. American women writers, 19th and 20th American literature, 19th and early 20th C. American reform/protest literature.