Bio
Lucy Maddox is Professor in the Department of English.
She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in a number of areas, including American Indian literature and modern and contemporary American literature. She has also taught core courses for the American Studies program. Since 1980, she has spent her summers teaching for the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College, Vermont. She was the editor of American Quarterly, the
journal of the American Studies Association, from 1994 until 2003. Her publications include Nabokov’s Novels in English (University of Georgia Press); Removals: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Politics of Indian Affairs (Oxford University Press); Citizen Indians: Native American Intellectuals, Race, and Reform (Cornell University Press);“Susan Fenimore Cooper and the Plain Daughters of America.” American Quarterly; ‘Gilbert White and the Politics of Natural History,” Eighteenth Century Life; “Bearing the Burden: Perceptions of Native American Women at Work,” Women: A Cultural Review; “Representing America,” American Literary History; “Native American Poetry,” in the Columbia History of American Poetry.
Lucy Maddox received her BA from Furman University, her MA from Duke University, and her PhD from the University of Virginia.
