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Deborah De Rosa

Associate Professor

Later 19th-century American Literature

Office: RH 225
Phone: 753-6650
Email: derosa@niu.edu
Home Page: http://www.engl.niu.edu/dderosa/

Educational Background


Ph.D. University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; 1998

M.A. University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; 1991

B.A. Barnard College of Columbia University New York; 1988


Professional Interests


Abolitionist literature

Children’s literature

Slave and Captivity Narratives

Ghost Stories

Womanism and Women Writers, including Toni Morrison, Amy Tan, and J.K. Rowling


Selected Publications >

Current Courses >

Selected Publications

  • Editor, Into the Mouths of Babes: An Anthology of Children’s Abolitionist Literature. New York: Greenwood Press, 2005.
  • Domestic Abolitionism and Juvenile Literature: 1830-1865. New York: State University of New York Press, 2003.
  • “A Womanist Approach.” The Toni Morrison Encyclopedia. Ed. Elizabeth Beaulieu. Greenwood Press, 2002. 39-49.
  • From the Liberator’s “Juvenile Department” to Juvenile Poems, for the Use of Free American Children of Every Complexion: William Lloyd Garrison and Abolitionist Literature for Children, 1831-1835. In progress.

Current Courses

CourseMeeting Days / Time / Room
Fall 2013ENGL 332.1 (details)
TTH / 11:00 - 12:15 / DU270
Fall 2013ENGL 374. (details)
TTH / 12:30 - 1:45 / DU270
Fall 2013ENGL 375.1 (details)
TTH / 9:30 - 10:45 / DU270
Spring 2013ENGL 679.1 (details)
M / 6:00 - 8:40 / RH302
Fall 2011ENGL 300A.0003 (details)
MWF / 9:00 - 9:50 / RH 202
Fall 2011ENGL 332.0001 (details)
MWF / 10:00 - 10:50 / RH 202
Fall 2011ENGL 375.0001 (details)
MWF / 1:00 - 1:50 / RH 202
Spring 2012ENGL 300A.3 (details)
TTH / 9:30 - 10:45 / RH302
Spring 2012ENGL 607.3 (details)
W / 6:00 - 8:40 / RH210
Fall 2012ENGL 300A.1 (details)
TTH / 9:30 - 10:45 / DU270
Fall 2012ENGL 332.1 (details)
TTH / 11:00 - 12:15 / DU270
Fall 2012ENGL 374.1 (details)
TTH / 2:00 - 3:15 / RH301
Spring 2013ENGL 300A.2 (details)
TTH / 11:00 - 12:15 / DU 270