Mary E. Papke
Selected Publications
- Twisted from the Ordinary: Essays on American Literary Naturalism (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003)
- Susan Glaspell: A Research and Production Sourcebook (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1992)
- Verging on the Abyss: The Social Fiction of Kate Chopin and Edith Wharton (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1990).
Representative articles
- “What Do Women Want?” Context: A Forum for Literary Arts and Culture 11 (Fall 2002): 12-13
- "Players in the Dark: Evelyn Scott's Drama of Excess," in Evelyn Scott: Recovering a Lost Modernist, ed. Dorothy Scura (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001), 177-186
- "Bring in the Usual Complexities," American Book Review 22.5 (July/August 2001), 5,7
- "Susan Glaspell (1 July 1876-27 July 1948)," Dictionary of Literary Biography, Twentieth-Century American Dramatists, ed. Christopher Wheatley (Detroit: Gale Research Company, 2000)
- "Reading Carol De Chellis Hill," Context 4 (2000), 8-9
- "Martha Nussbaum's 10K Race for Justice," Soundings 83. 3-4 (Fall/Winter 2000), 612-614
- Review of Henry James's The Ambassadors: A Critical Study by Dorothea Krook, The Henry James Review 20.2 (Spring 1999), 208-10
- Review of Main-Travelled Roads by Hamlin Garland, Borderlines: Studies in American Culture 3.4 (1996), 440-41
- "Mary E. Papke on 'The Story of an Hour,'" in Kate Chopin: A Study of the Short Fiction by Benard Koloski (NY: Twayne, 1996), 132-34
- Review of The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism: Howells to London, ed. by Donald Pizer, Borderlines: Studies in American Culture 3.2 (1996), 197-98
- "American Marxwomen: Duelling with Historical Materialism" in Germany and German Thought in American Literature and Cultural Criticism, edited by Peter Freese (Essen: Verlag Die Blaue Eule, 1990), 454-469
- "'The Transcendental Phallus': Fascism and Klaus Theweleit's Male Fantasies," Literature and Psychology 35.4 (1989), 55-61
- "Chopin's Stories of Awakening," in Approaches to Teaching Chopin's 'The Awakening' (1988), 73-79
- (with William Morgan), "Recoil or Convergence: What Happens When a Woman and a Man Read a Text Together?" in Academic Writing as Social Practice by Linda Brodkey (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987), 152-162
- "The Absent Text: Luce Irigaray's Foray into the Dark Continent of Femininity," Literature and Psychology, 32 (1986), 53-56
- "'Mutable Anarchy': Bravery and Trepidation in Jean Thompson's Fiction," Illinois Writers Review, 4 (Winter 1985), 4-5
- "Light Reading on Heavy Matters," Illinois Writers Review, 4 (Fall 1985), 13
- "An Analysis of Selected American Marxist Criticism, 1920-1941: From Dogma to Dynamic Strategies," The Minnesota Review, n.s. 13 (Fall 1979), 41-70.
Honors
- Elected a Fellow of the Society for Values in Higher Education, 2001
- Elected to Phi Kappa Phi, 1999
- College of Arts & Sciences Senior Faculty Teaching Award, 1998-99
- John C. Hodges Excellence in Teaching Award, 1987.
Organizations & Associations
- Member of Executive Board, Edith Wharton Society, 2005 --
- Member of Advisory Board, Kate Chopin Society, 2005 --
- Member of Advisory Board for Fc2, 2003-
- Member of Executive Council and Bibliographer of the Susan Glaspell Society, 2003 --
- Editorial Board, Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 1995--
- Assistant editor, Literature and Psychology, 1985-1999.
- President, UTK Faculty Senate, 1999-2000
- President-Elect, UTK Faculty Senate, 1998-1999.
Contact Information
Mary E. Papke
Professor and Associate Dean of the Graduate School
Co-Chair of the International and Intercultural Awareness Initiative
Department of English
304 McClung Tower
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-0430
Office: (865) 974-6934
Fax: (865) 974-6926
E-mail: papke@utk.edu
Education
B.A., University of Illinois
M.A., Ph.D. McGill University
Research
American Literature, Feminist Theory