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TUCKER (email
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| Profile
last updated: 6/23/05 |
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Address:
5941 S. La Casa Ct. SE, Kentwood, MI 49508
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County:
Kent
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Phone
(w): 616-827-8460
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Phone
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Fax:
616-331-3430
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| E-mail:
tuckerv@gvsu.edu |
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| Academic
Affiliation: Associate Professor of English, Grand Valley State
University |
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| Degree:
Ph.D., University of Michigan |
| Major:
English |
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| Specialization
areas: African American literature and 19th century black women's
biography |
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| Past
experience: I have been trained to look for the interior (psychological)
states and exterior (socio-cultural) locations of subjects of biographical
and historical texts. I have over 25 years of teaching experience
at the college level. Presently I teach African American literature,
African American Studies and American literature at Grand Valley State
University. My research activities include extensive study of several
lesser known African American slave women who trangressed the social
station dictated for them by 19th century social norms, seized their
freedom, and made significant contributions to African American and
American life in the 19th century. I have published articles on Toni
Morrison's black women characters in Beloved; on the ficational
character in Alice Randall's paroady, The Wind Done Gone; on
the black woman who was accused of being a witch during the witch
trials in 17th century Salem, Massachusetts, and on Sojourner Turth.
I created and teach a special course at GVSU for the African American
Studies program on the Underground Railroad and the Abolitionist Movement
1830-1865 with a particular focus on Underground Railroad and Abolitionist
activities in Michigan. |
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