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
- YA Multicultural Literature
Selected Awards
- Schriber Scholar, Department of English, 2019-2021
Selected Publications
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“Bridges to Self: Material Culture and Emotional Transnationalism in Grace Lin’s Picture Books.” The Lion and the Unicorn. Forthcoming.
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“‘I do want to be a good woman once’: Louisiana’s Civil Code of 1870 and the Denied Lagniappe in Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s ‘Tony’s Wife.’” Women's Studies An Inter-disciplinary Journal. October 15, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2020.1824916.
- 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.
