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Felicia Mitchell, Ph.D.
Professor of English
Courses
Biographical Information
Felicia
Mitchell, chairperson of the Department of English since 2005 and
coordinator of the Writing Center since 1987, joined the faculty of Emory
& Henry in 1987 after receiving her Ph.D. from The University of Texas
at Austin where she studied Curriculum & Instruction, Rhetoric, and
Composition. Her M.A. (English) and B.A. (English) are from the
University of South Carolina. A native of South Carolina, Dr.
Mitchell graduated from the historic African-American high school Booker T.
Washington in Columbia in 1973.
Teaching
interests include writing, creative writing, contemporary poetry, international
fiction, linguistics, and women's studies. Those who take her courses will
find interdisciplinary connections and multicultural
perspectives. Dr. Mitchell is also interested in the integration of
technology within a liberal arts environment and utilizes technology
in creative ways in all of her courses.
In
addition to teaching, Dr. Mitchell writes and stays professionally
active. Her scholarly articles have appeared in Poets &
Writers, College Composition and Communication, Issues in Writing,
Phoebe, Women & Language, Women's Studies Quarterly, and
other publications. An essay on an approach to teaching composition appears
in Landmark Essays on Advanced Composition (Hermagoras
Press). A few years ago, she combined her interest in art and
poetry to create a book of poems and quilt art reproductions, Words
& Quilts (Quilt Digest Press, 1996). A recent professional
project involved editing a book on Appalachian women's poetry entitled Her
Words: Diverse Voices in Contemporary Appalachian Women's Poetry
(University of Tennessee Press, 2002). Recently Dr. Mitchell completed
a biography of Mary Gordon Ellis, a progressive educator who was the first
woman elected to the Senate in South Carolina, and a collection of poems
grounded in insight into dementia; both are in submission. Within her
community, Dr. Mitchell writes a weekly column for the Washington County
News, which is edited by former student and English major Mark Sage.
Dr.
Mitchell is a widely published poet, with listings in Poets & Writers Directory and Contemporary American
Authors. Her poems have appeared in journals and anthologies
since 1983, recently in Columbia. A Journal of Literature and the Arts,
Weber Studies, and Many Mountains Moving. A chapbook is forthcoming from Finishing
Line Press. In 2008, “There
is No Map” was published as an online chapbook by Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. In 1999, Earthenware
Fertility Figure was published as a first-prize chapbook through a
competition sponsored by Talent House Press in Oregon. Selected
anthologies that include other poems are bite to eat place. an anthology
of food poems and poetic prose (Redwood Coast Press), We Speak for Peace
(KIT Publishers), and Our Mothers, Our Selves. Writers and
Poets Celebrating Motherhood (Bergin & Garvey). Sara St.
Antoine's Stories from Where We Live: South Atlantic Coast and Piedmont (Milkweed
Editions) includes a poem about Dr. Mitchell's childhood in South
Carolina. The textbook Readings in the Psychology of Women
(Allyn & Bacon) also includes a poem, "Azande Wooden Figure,
Mother and Child."
"Leda
and the Swan," a poem published in Spoon River Quarterly, is
addressed in the following critical essay by Ilona Dobosiewicz:
"Intertextual Elements in the Leda and the Swan Poems by William
Butler Yeats, Mona Van Duyn, and Felicia Mitchell." Filologia
Angielska 9 (1998): 113-121.
See an
abbreviated vita here.
Published Work By Students
Written for Misc. Classes
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Poems
by Morgan Richards, Blue Fifth Review
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Poems
by Morgan Richards, Nantahala Review
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Poem
by Maggie Hess, A! Magazine &
Leidig Poetry Prize 2006
Miscellaneous Work by Students
Selected Poems
Selected Other
Publications
Personal Page
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feliciamitchell.blogspot.com
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