Faculty Directory
Lovalerie King
Assistant Professor of English and Women's Studies
Contact:
116 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802
Office Phone: 814-863-2178
luk13@psu.edu
Office Hours:
Tuesday 12:45-1:45 and Tuesday/Thursday 10-11
Lovalerie King is Assistant Professor of English and affiliate faculty in Women's Studies at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park. Her areas of expertise include African American literary history, African American culture and legal discourse, black women authors, and black feminist thought and theory. She is the author of A Students' Guide to African American Literature (2003), Race, Theft and Ethics: Property Matters in African American Literature (2007), and The Cambridge Introduction to Zora Neale Hurston (2008). She has co-edited James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: Comparative Critical and Theoretical Essays (2006) and New Essays on the African American Novel: from Hurston and Ellison to Morrison and Whitehead (2008). She has contributed numerous essays, reviews, and articles to journals, essay collections, and literary and cultural reference volumes. Her ongoing projects include an autobiography and a co-edited project examining the relationship between African American cultural production and legal discourse. She is a member of PSU English Department’s American Women Writers Workshop and serves on the Advisory Board of the PSU Center for American Literary Studies. She holds a B.A. from Michigan State University, an M.A. from Emory University (with certification in Women’s Studies), and a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (with a major in African American Literature and a minor in theory).
PSU Courses: Engl 135, 139, 194, 462, 466, 566, 568
Publications:
Books
- Co-edited with Linda F. Selzer, New Essays on the African American Novel: from Hurston and Ellison to Morrison and Whitehead, Palgrave (June 2008).
- The Cambridge Introduction to Zora Neale Hurston. Cambridge (fall 2008).
- Race, Theft, and Ethics: Property Matters in African American Literature. LSU (2007).
- Co-edited with Lynn Orilla. James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: Comparative Critical and Theoretical Essays. Palgrave, 2006. 312 pages.
Selected Articles
- “Resistance, Reappropriation, and Reconciliation: The Blues and Flying Africans in Gayl Jones's Song for Anninho.” Callaloo. Volume 27, No. 3 (Summer 2004). Reprinted in After the Pain: Critical Essays on Gayl Jones, ed. Fiona Mills and Keith Mitchell. Peter Lang, 2006. 241-257.
- “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.” In American History through Literature, 1820-1870, edited by Janet Gabler-Hover and Robert Sattelmeyer, pp. 554-560. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006.
- “African American Womanism from Zora Neale Hurston to Alice Walker.” (Chapter) The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel, ed. Maryemma Graham. 233-252. 2004.
- “Counterdiscourses on the Racialization of Theft and Morality in Douglass's 1845 Narrative and Jacobs's Incidents.” MELUS 28.4 (Winter 2003): 54-82.
- “The Desire/Authority Nexus in Contemporary African American Women's Drama.” Black Women Playwrights: Visions on the American Stage, e d. Carol P. Marsh- Lockett. Garland Press, 1999. 114-130 .
- “The Disruption of Formulaic Discourse: Writing Resistance and Truth in Beloved.” Critical Essays on Toni Morrison's Beloved, ed. Barbara Solomon. G.K. Hall, 1998. 272-283.
Selected Book Reviews
- Eithne Quinn. Nuthin' but a “g” thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap. African American Review. 40:3 (Summer/Fall 2006): 610-12.
- Paula Massood, Black City Cinema. African American Review(Summer/Fall, 2003): 165-167.
- Alice Randall, The Wind Done Gone. CLA Journal. September 2002. 2000 words.
- (With Erin King) “A Healing Romance for the Plague Years.” Pearl Cleage, What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day. Callaloo25:2 (Summer 2002): 687-693.
- Selected Works of Edythe Mae Gordon. Ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Lorraine Elena Roses. African American Review, 32:2 (Summer 1998), 360-62.
- Alice Walker and Pratibha Parmar, Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women, African American Review, 31:3 (Fall 1997), 542-45.
Work in Progress
- Co-edited volume: “Justice Unveiled: African American Culture and Legal Discourse.”
Link to article: “Resistance, Reappropriation, and Reconciliation: The Blues and Flying Africans in Gayl Jones’s Song for Anninho” Callaloo 27.3 (2004) 755-767.
http://muse.jhu.edu.ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu/journals/callaloo/v027/27.3king.html
