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Dr. Willey is an assistant professor at Kent State University-Tuscarawas where she teaches primarily composition courses. She has taught writing and literature at various institutions, including a public high school, a community college, and two four-year universities. Her areas of interest include nineteenth-century American literature, African-American literature, literature of the African Diaspora, post-colonial theory, and gender studies. Her current research focuses on masculinity studies within slave narratives and sentimental literature from the American Renaissance. She lives in New Philadelphia with her husband and two cats, Chaucer and Buchi. The whole family agrees that it is nice to be back in northeastern Ohio after their pleasant, but far too warm, stint in the South.
Select recent publications:
“When Charity Isn’t Enough: Harriet E. Wilson’s Critique of Capitalism in Our Nig.” Our Sisters’ Keepers: Nineteenth-Century Benevolence Literature by American Women. Eds. Debra Bernardi and Jill Bergman. Forthcoming.
“The Wide, Wide World.” Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature. Ed. Connie Kirk. Forthcoming.
“Susan Warner.” Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature. Ed. Connie Kirk. Forthcoming.
“Why Do Women Write? An Autobiography of a Dissertation.” Women Writers: Special Issue on Autotheory. Ed. Lisa Johnson. (Summer 2003). www.womenwriters.net/may2003/willey.html
“Ibuza vs. Lagos: The Feminist and Traditional
Buchi Emecheta.” The Journal for the Association of Research on Mothering
2.2 (Fall/Winter 2000): 155-166.