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LISA SLAPPEY
Ph.D., Rice UniversityLecturer Office: Herring Hall 243 Phone: 713-348-4209 Email: slappey@rice.edu General Areas of Interest American Literature Specific Areas of Interest Environmental Literature, Native American Literature, Regional Studies Books and Recent Articles "Brazos Bildungsroman: John Graves and Texas in Transition in Goodbye to a River" forthcoming in John Graves, Writer from the University of Texas Press. Recent Presentations "California in the Novels of John Rollin Ridge, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Thomas King." Western Literature Association, Los Angeles, CA, October 2005. "Writing to the Masses: Carl Hiaasen’s Fight for South Florida." Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, Eugene, OR, June 2005 "’This is still good country’: John Graves, Cormac McCarthy, and Texas in Transition." Western Literature Association, Big Sky, MT, October 2004. "Violence and Cultural Change in John Graves’s Goodbye to a River." Western Literature Association, Houston, TX, October 2003. "The New Hydraulic Society: Managing Water in Native American Literature." Western Literature Association, Tucson, AZ, October 2002. "Reproducing Nature: Feminized Space in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Gardens in the Dunes." The North American Interdisciplinary Conference on Environmental Arts and Humanities, Reno, NV, February 2000. Recent Courses Taught Literature and the Environment Native American Literature 20th Century Native American Issues |
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