Biography
Education
PhD, Washington University in St. Louis 2021
MA, Washington University in St. Louis, 2016
BA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2014
Interests and Specializations
Contemporary Literature, Literary Theory, African American and Multiethnic Literatures, Women and Gender Studies, Institutional and Labor Studies
About
Deborah Thurman joined the Marshall English faculty in 2022, as a specialist in American literature and culture after 1945. She teaches courses in contemporary literature, literary theory, African American literature, and women’s literature. She also teaches interdisciplinary courses in the Herd Humanities program and the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program. Her research focuses on contemporary narratives of labor, precarity, and institutional life. Currently, she is writing a book on twenty-first century office fiction. Her scholarship has appeared in journals such as American Quarterly, Arizona Quarterly, and Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S.