English Department
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
Phone: 828-227-3919
Email: adebo@email.wcu.edu
Office Address: Coulter 404
Education:
- Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park
Teaching and Research:
Annette Debo teaches classes in modernism, African American literature, literary theory, and women’s literature. Her monograph The American H.D. was published by the University of Iowa Press in 2012; she is the co-editor of the MLA volume Approaches to Teaching H.D.'s Poetry and Prose (2011); and past co-chair of the H.D. International Society. Her articles have appeared in African American Review, Callaloo, Paideuma, South Atlantic Review, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, CLA Journal, and College Literature. She was awarded the H.D. Fellowhship in English or American Literature for 2012-13 by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, and she will be a Visiting Fellow there May 2013 to work on a new project: The Spear That Pierces the Heart: World War II and H.D., Gertrude Stein, and Marianne Moore. This project extends her current work on World War II; she is editing an edition of H.D.'s Within the Walls and What Do I Love?, short stories and poetry written in London in the midst of the war. She is also at work on a book, Furious Flowers All, on social justice, the Civil Rights Movement, and the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks, Sonia Sanchez, and Natasha Trethewey.