Dr. Donna White
VISITING LECTURER OF ENGLISH
EDUCATION HISTORY
- BA-Arkansas Tech University
- MA-The University of Texas at Austin
- PHD-University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITES
Dr. White has eclectic research interests: children's and young adult literature, science fiction, fantasy, graphic novels, Celtic literature, philosophy in literature, Edwardian literature, Jane Austen. She is on the editorial board of Mythlore and is a consulting editor for the Children's Literature Association Quarterly, The Lion and the Unicorn, and Children's Literature.
Co-editor and contributor, Posthumanism in Young Adult Fiction: Finding Humanity in a Posthuman World. University Press of Mississippi, 2018.
“Finding Beatrix Potter: Bryan Talbot’s The Tale of One Bad Rat.” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, Oct. 2018, doi:10.1080/21504857.2018.1533484.
“Nonsense Elements in Jane Austen’s Juvenilia.” Persuasions On-line, vol. 39, no. 1, Winter 2018.
“Nietzsche Tells the Time: Creating the Superman in Watchmen.” Paper given at the Science Fiction/Popular Culture conference in Hawaii, September 2018.
Recently Taught Courses
- ENGL 1023 - COMPOSITION II
- ENGL 2063 - INTRO TO LITERARY STUDIES
- ENGL 3013 - SYSTEMS OF GRAMMAR
- ENGL 6283 - LIT/SOCIETY: GRAPHIC NOVEL