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Barbara J. Wilcots, Associate Professor

Education
B.A., Drake University
M.A., Drake University
M.A., Texas Woman's University
Ph.D., University of Denver
 

Areas
20th-Century American Literature
Emphases: African-American, Caribbean, and Post-Colonial Literatures

Major Publications
"Toni Morrison's Folk Roots," African American Review 26.4 (Winter 1992)

"African American Folklore," The Southern Companion to Literature, 2000, Louisiana State University Press

In Rememory of Emmett:  The Politics of Race and the Emmett Till Murder, forthcoming, University of Georgia Press

Folklore and Literature, Gale Study Guides, Manly, Inc.

Current Research
African American folklore 
African American and Caribbean sacred spiritual rites
Toni Morrison's narrative style.

Courses Taught
African American Literature and Criticism
The Jazz Age
Writers of the Americas
American Autobiography
The Modern American Essay 
American Expatriates in Paris 
Being Mixed-Race in America
American Literature Survey III
Faulkner and Morrison
Literature of Social Justice.