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Margaret Whitt, Professor

Education
B.A., Pfeiffer College 
M.A., Florida State University 
Ph.D., University of Denver 

Areas
Modern American Literature; Emphases: Southern Literature, African American Literature, Pedagogy of Composition

Major Publications

Short Stories of the Civil Rights Movement: An Anthology (U of Georgia P, 2006)

The Civil Mind (with Janet Bland) (Thomson-Wadsworth, 2006)

Understanding Flannery O'Connor (U of South Carolina P, 1995; reprinted 1997) 

Understanding Gloria Naylor (U of South Carolina P, 1999) 

articles on Flannery O'Connor, Gloria Naylor, Carson McCullers 

Current Research
Zora Neale Hurston 
Civil Rights Literature (1954-1968) 

Courses Taught
Graduate teaching seminars 
AHUM Core classes 
WSTU colloquia 
American Short Story 
Literature of the American South 
African American Literature