Deborah De Rosa
Associate Professor
Later 19th-century American Literature
Office: RH 225
Email: derosa@niu.edu
Educational Background
- Ph.D. University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; 1998
- M.A. University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; 1991
- B.A. Barnard College of Columbia University New York; 1988
Professional Interests
- Abolitionist literature
- Children’s literature
- Slave and Captivity Narratives
- Ghost Stories
- Womanism and Women Writers, including Toni Morrison, Amy Tan and J.K. Rowling
Selected Publications
- Editor, Into the Mouths of Babes: An Anthology of Children’s Abolitionist Literature. New York: Greenwood Press, 2005.
- Domestic Abolitionism and Juvenile Literature: 1830-1865. New York: State University of New York Press, 2003.
- “A Womanist Approach.” The Toni Morrison Encyclopedia. Ed. Elizabeth Beaulieu. Greenwood Press, 2002. 39-49.
- From the Liberator’s “Juvenile Department” to Juvenile Poems, for the Use of Free American Children of Every Complexion: William Lloyd Garrison and Abolitionist Literature for Children, 1831-1835. In progress.
Contact us
Northern Illinois University
Department of English
Reavis Hall, Room 215
DeKalb, IL 60115
815-753-0611
815-753-0606 (Fax)
