DoVeanna Fulton Associate Professor of American Studies Director & Chair of African American Studies dfulton@as.ua.edu (205) 348-5761 Education: University of Minnesota (Ph.D.) University of Michigan Wayne State University (B.A.) Research Focus: Example 1 Example 2 Example 3 Specialty Fields : Example 1 Example 2 Example 3

Selected Publications

Publications:

Books

Speaking to Write/Right: Three Women’s Oral Slave Narratives.  Co-edited with Reginald Pitts.  SUNY Press, Forthcoming

Speaking Power: Black Feminist Orality in Women’s Narratives of Slavery.  SUNY Press.  (2006).

 

Book Chapters

“Strong Drink, Strong Work: Frederick Douglass, Frances E. W. Harper, and Martin R. Delaney Working Temperance, Working Race.” Invited contribution to the volume The Black World: INNERSpace: INNERCity: InterAction: InterNation.  Hanna Wallinger and John Gruesser, eds.  LIT Verlag.  Forthcoming

 

“‘Come through the water, come through the flood’: Black Women Creating Representative Gospel to Remember the Mississippi River Flood of 1927.” Exploring the Cultural Dimensions of Disaster.  Gary R. Webb and E.L. Quarantelli, eds.  Philadelphia, PA: XLibris.  In production.

 

Refereed Journal Publications

“Sowing Seeds in an Untilled Field: Temperance and Race, Indeterminacy and Recovery in Frances E. W. Harper’s Sowing and Reaping.”  Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers.  24 (2007).  207-224.

 

“Comic Views and Metaphysical Dilemmas: Shattering Cultural Images through Self-Definition and Representation by Black Women Comedians.”   Journal of American Folklore 117 (2004): 81-96.

 

“Speak Sister, Speak, Oral Empowerment in Louisa Picquet, The Octoroon” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 15 (1998): 98-103.

 

Review Essays, Book/Film Reviews, Entries

“Spirituals.”  Writing African American Women : An Encyclopedia of Literature by and about Women of Color.  Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu, general editor.  Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group.  2006.  816-820.

 

American Masters: “Ralph Ellison: An American Journey” Avon Kirkland, Director http://www.kaet.asu.edu/exclusive/ellison_fulton.html, August 2005.

 

Her Dream of Dreams: The Rise and Triumph of Madame C. J. Walker by Barbara Lowry.  Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies 34 (2003): 247-248.

 

Southern History Across the Color Line by Nell Irvin Painter.  Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies 34 (2003): 58-59.

 

Women in Chains: The Legacy of Slavery in Black Women’s Fiction by Venetria K. Patton and Dreaming Black/Writing White: The Hagar Myth in American Cultural History by Janet Gabler-Hover.  Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 17 (2000): 230-232.

 

“Sylvia Dubois.”  The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery.  Junius P. Rodriguez, general editor. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1997.  226-227.

 

“Maria W. Stewart.”  The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery.  Junius P. Rodriguez, general editor. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1997.  610.

 

Nonrefereed Publications

“Sisterhood Really Is Global.”  The Monitor. Vol. VII, No. 109.  Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 2000.