Margo Lukens
University of Maine
Address:
Margo Lukens
Associate Professor of English and Department Chair
5752 Neville Hall, Room 304A
Orono, Maine 04469-5752
U.S.A.
Office Telephone: (207) 581-3823
E-mail: Margaret.Lukens@umit.maine.edu
Areas of specialization include Wabanaki Literary History, American Women's Literature, African-American Literature, the Literature of Mixed Blood.
Some Courses Taught:
Graduate Level:
African American Literary
Traditions and Theory
American Literature: Colonial through Romantic
Métissage: the Literature and Experience of Mixed Blood
Undergraduate Level:
African American Literature
American Literature Survey through the Civil War
American Women's Literature
Cultural Intersections in America
Ethnicity and Race in American Literature
Introduction to Women's Studies
Native American Literature
Native American Women Writers and Storytellers
Publications
Book Chapters
"The American Indian Story of Zitkala-Sa." In Her Own Voice: Nineteenth-Century American Women Essayists, ed. Sherry Lee Linkon. New York: Garland Publishing, 1997. 141-55.
"Columnist of Conscience: Margaret Fuller's New York Years." In Margaret Fuller: Visionary of the New Age, ed. Marie Urbanski. Orono: Northern Lights Press, 1994. 183-96.
"Selective Cultural Intersections in America." Multiethnic Literature of the United States: Critical Introductions and Classroom Resources, ed. Cordelia Candelaria. Boulder: University of Colorado, 1989. 133-57.
Recent Articles
"'A Being of a New World:' The Ambiguity of Mixed Blood in Pauline Johnson's 'My Mother,'" forthcoming in MELUS (Multi Ethnic Literature of the United States).
"Her 'Wrongs and Claims': Sarah Winnemucca's Strategic Narratives of Abuse." Wicazo-Sa Review 13 (1), Spring 1998. 93-108.
"Mourning Dove and Mixed Blood: Cultural and Historical Pressures on Aesthetic Choice and Authorial Identity." American Indian Quarterly 21 (3), Summer 1997. 409-22.