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Mary E. Papke

Mary E. Papke

Mary E. Papke

Professor

420 McClung Tower
Phone: (865) 974-6953
Fax: (865) 974-6926
papke@utk.edu

Education

  • B.A., University of Illinois
  • M.A., Ph.D. McGill University

Publications

  • The Narrow House by Evelyn Scott. Critical Introduction. University of Tennessee Press, 2021. Pages vii-xxvii.
  • “Naturalism’s Children: Unruly Naturalism in Works by Darcy Steinke, Joyce Carol Oates, and Lynda Barry,” Studies in American Naturalism 11.2 (Winter 2016): 56-70.
  • Twisted from the Ordinary: Essays on American Literary Naturalism (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003)
  • Susan Glaspell: A Research and Production Sourcebook (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1992)
  • Verging on the Abyss: The Social Fiction of Kate Chopin and Edith Wharton (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1990).

Representative articles

  • “Feminar 103: Notes on Teaching about Women, Gender and Sexuality,” The Forum: The Present and Future of Higher Education, 12 October 2020.
  • “Feminar 102: Notes on Teaching about Women, Gender and Sexuality,” The Forum: The Present and Future of Higher Education. 29 December 2019.
  • “Feminar 101: Notes on Teaching about Women, Gender and Sexuality,” The Forum: The Present and Future of Higher Education. 10 June 2019.
  • “Naturalism and Commodity Culture” in The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Naturalism, ed. by Keith Newlin (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011): 291-306.
  • “The ‘Other Countries’ of the Human Mind and Soul: James R. Giles on Twentieth-Century Naturalism,” Studies in American Naturalism, 5.1 (Summer 2010):79-91.
  • “Why Students Should Read Frank Norris First,” with Anne Mayhew, ALN: The American Literary Naturalism Newsletter 4.1-2: 7-11.
  • “So Long As We Read Chopin,” in Awakenings: The Story of the Kate Chopin Revival, ed. by Bernard Koloski (Baton Rouge:  Louisiana State University Press): 77-93.

Awards, Honors & Grants

  • Notable UT Woman of the Year award, Commission for Women, University of Tennessee, 2018
  • D. Allen Carroll Distinguished Teaching Professor, 2015-2017
  • Conferred as Distinguished Member of The National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Fall, 2015.
  • James R. and Nell W. Cunningham Outstanding Teaching Award, College of Arts & Sciences, The University of Tennessee, 2012
  • Chancellor’s Citation for Extraordinary Service to the University, The University of Tennessee, April 2012
  • Chancellor’s Citation for Extraordinary Contribution to the Ready for the World Initiative, The University of Tennessee, April 2010
  • Elected a Fellow of the Society for Values in Higher Education, 2001
  • Elected to Phi Kappa Phi, 1999
  • College of Arts & Sciences Senior Faculty Teaching Award, 1998-99
  • John C. Hodges Excellence in Teaching Award, 1987

Associations & Organizations

  • Chair of the Board for The Tennessee Studies in Literature series, 2008—
  • Member of Advisory Board, Kate Chopin Society, 2005 —
  • Member of Executive Council and Bibliographer of the Susan Glaspell Society, 2003 —
  • Editorial Board, Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 1995–