Shari Evans

Associate Professor / Chairperson

English & Communication

Contact

508-910-6522

508-999-9235

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Liberal Arts 340

Education

University of New Mexico

PhD

University of New Mexico

University of Pennsylvania

Teaching

Programs

Teaching

Online and Continuing Education Courses

ENL 400: Sem:American Literature

The particular topic of each seminar is announced immediately before each registration period.
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Research

Research interests

African American and Multicultural American Literature
Contemporary Women Writers
Feminist and Critical Race Theory

Shari Evans joined the English Department in 2005. Professor Evans earned her Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of New Mexico and her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. Her teaching and research interests include comparative ethnic literatures (particularly African American and Native American) and women writers, as well as race and gender studies and literary theory. Evans's most recent work is on theorizing "home" through the work of Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler, and Margaret Atwood. She is currently engaged in work on the space of memory in contemporary multicultural American writers. Evans has most recently presented and written on the work of Octavia Butler, Brenda Marie Osbey, Joy Harjo, and Toni Morrison. She is a recipient of the distinguished American Society of Eighteenth Century Studies Teaching Award and the University of New Mexico's Gunter Starkey Award for Teaching Excellence.