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Alice Knox Eaton
Assistant Professor of English
B.A., Oberlin College, 1981
M.A., University of Massachusetts, 1996
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, 1998

Professor Eaton has been at Springfield College since 2000. Her teaching responsibilities include College Writing, Writing Studio, and African American Literature. She has also taught a senior seminar for English majors on Nobel Prize winning author Toni Morrison, as well as courses in African and Caribbean Literature and American Drama.

Professor Eaton has written academic articles and personal essays on life in academia for publications such as ARIEL, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and a forthcoming collection of essays on motherhood and academia. She is also a playwright and has had her work staged at the Women’s Project and Productions in New York City and at the Yale School of Drama. In addition, she is a contributor to the African-American National Biography project at Harvard University, to be published by Oxford University Press, with entries on literary figures William Wells Brown, Pauline Hopkins, and Alice Dunbar-Nelson Student Interviews

Updated: 11/05/2003



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