Academics
Judy M. Dozier
Associate Professor
English
Chair, African American Studies
Phone 847-735-5283
E-mail dozier@lakeforest.edu
Web http://campus.lakeforest.edu/dozier/
Specialization
African American Literature and Theory
Gender Studies
19th Century American Literature
Education
Ph.D. English, Loyola University Chicago
M.A. English, Governors State University
B.A. English, University of Illinois at Chicago
Courses Taught
English 351: Gender and Literature
English 325: Black Literature of the 60s
English 310: The African Novel in English
English 218: Blues Women in African American Literature
English 217: African American Literature II
Engl/Afam 216: African American Literature I
FIYS 174: African American Literary Voices
FIYS 000: Richard Wright and the Chicago Renaissance
English 110: Introduction to Literary Studies
English 100: English Composition
Articles
"Angela Jackson." Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers. Volume 1. Ed. Yolanda Williams Page. Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2007.
Four entries: "The Last Poets," "The Harlem Renaissance," Haki Madhubuti," "The Bean Eaters." Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry. ed. Burt Kimmelman. Facts on File, Inc., 2004.
"In Our Own Voices: Liberating Race From the Margins." Included in English Studies: Learning Climates That Cultivate Racial and Ethnic Diversity. Victor Villanueva and Shelli B. Fowler, eds. American Association of Higher Education, 2002. 171-175.
"Who You Callin a Lady?: Resisting Sexual Definition in The Color Purple." Griot: Official Journal of the Southern Conference on Afro-American Studies, Inc. 21.2 (2002) 8-16.
"I Earns my Struttin' Shoes: Blues Women and Leadership." Anthology on Matrilineal Leadership. Ed. Dr. Toni King et.al. Forthcoming. 16 pages.
Four entries: "The Last Poets," "The Harlem Renaissance," Haki Madhubuti," "The Bean Eaters." Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry. ed. Burt Kimmelman. Facts on File, Inc., forthcoming 2004.
"Unlearning Racism: The Classroom as Community." Eric Clearinghouse, Indiana University, 2001.
Review of Deborah E. McDowell, "The Changing Same": Black Women's Literature, Criticism, and Theory (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995), for Rocky Mountain Review of Language & Literature 50.2 (1996): 197-98.
Creative Works
"God's Work." U.S. Catholic Magazine. Feb. 1995: 26-27. (fiction)
"Calvin Jones: Painter." COLORLINES Magazine Dec. 1992: 14. (non-fiction)
"Momma's Legacy." NOMMO 3 Anthology. Ed. Toni McConnell. Chicago: OBAhouse Press, 1992. 73-74. (poetry)
"You Really Think So, God?" COLORLINES Magazine Dec. 1990: 17. (fiction)
"We Wuz Kids Together." NOMMO 2 Anthology. Ed. Toni McConnell. Chicago: OBAhouse Press, 1990. 38. (poetry)
"Shop Talk." NOMMO Anthology. Ed. Carole A. Parks. Chicago: OBAhouse Press, 1987. 167-175. (play excerpt)
Invited Talks
"Unlearning Racism: The Classroom as Community." Paper delivered at the NCTE conference in Milwaukee, WI, 2000.
"African American Female Authors: An Overview." Paper presented at the African American Women in the Arts Conference sponsored by ETA Creative Arts Foundation, 1991.
Popular Work
Just Tell the Story. A play reading held at ETA Creative Arts Foundation, Chicago, IL. 1989.
Shop Talk. A play reading held at Columbia College Theatre in Chicago and later at ETA Creative Arts Foundation, also in Chicago, IL. 1987.
Awards and Honors
Great Teacher Award, 2001. Annual college-wide selection of one faculty member by Senior Class.
Summer Research Award, 2000, 2001, 2002. Grant-in-aid for junior faculty, Lake Forest College.
African American Women in the Arts Play Festival 2nd Place Winner, Sponsored by the ETA Creative Arts Foundation, 1991.
Hoyt W. Fuller Play Festival Winner, Sponsored by The African American Arts Alliance of Chicago, 1987.