Carman Curton

Professor

Dr. Carman Curton, Professor of English
PhD, University of Denver

Publications & Presentations:

• Crisis in Higher Education, Michigan State University Press, 2015. With Jeffrey R. Docking.
• "The Stories Anthologies Tell", Lambert Academic Publishing, 2010.
• "Amy Tan." Contemporary American Women Fiction Writers
• "Sui Sin Far/Edith Maude Eaton." American Women Writers, 1900-1945: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook.
• "Content and Context: Reading Diversity through the Decontextualized American Literature Anthology," MLA, December 2003
• "Marketing Your Teaching Skills throughout the Application Process." RMMLA, October 2000
• "Frontier Discourse as a Re-affirmation of Racial/Gender Hierarchies." Southwest Social Sciences Association, March 2000 Moderator,
• "Emptying Out the Empire: An Examination of English World Literatures in Context," RMMLA, October 1997
• "Healing the Wound: Feminism and Troubled Mother-Daughter Relationships in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club," SCMLA, October 1993
• "The Use of Polysyndeton to Build a Litany in Malory's Morte D'Arthur," Federation of North Texas Area Universities Symposium in Rhetoric, April 1991

Specialties:

• Literature as a Reflection and Product of American Culture
• Editing and Publishing
• Asian American Literature
• Women in Literature
• American Literature Anthologies
• Educating our Educators
• Recruitment, Retention, and the Liberal Arts College

Other Interests:

• Flash Fiction
• E-books
• Graphic Novels

Special Recognition: 2000 Mary McKinney Ware Award for the most distinguished doctoral dissertation in Arts & Humanities.