Associate Professor of English
Office Location: HE 418
Phone Number: (262) 472-5054
Email Address: lueckb@uww.edu

Degrees:                                                                                                                                                                                             A.B., Vassar College, 1976
M.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1978
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1983

Areas of Teaching:                                                                                                                                                                           Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers, American Literature (beginning to 1900), American Renaissance, American Realism & Naturalism, American Gothic, American Sentimental & Domestic Fiction, American Slave Narrative

Courses Taught:                                                                                                                                                                               Survey of American Literature (226), American Renaissance (341), American Realism & Naturalism (342), Nineteenth-Century Women Writers (463), American Gothic, American Slave Narrative, American Gothic & the Sentimental Tradition, Freshman English (101, 102)

Select Publications & Presentations:                                                                                                                                           Hawthorne's American Travel Sketches with Dennis Berthold and Alfred Weber. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1989
American Writers and the Picturesque Tour; The Search for National Identity, 1790-1860 New York: Garland Publishing, 1997
"Keckley, Elizabeth" and Behind the Scenes; Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House. Writing African American Women: An Encyclopedia of Literature by and about Women of Color. Ed. Elizabeth Beaulieu. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006
"Harriet Beacher Stowe and E.D.E.N. Southworth: Biographical and Literary Heroines as Role Models for Women" Women and Leadership, Oxford Round Table, Oxford University, Oxford, England. August 2006
"'That Legacy of Blood': Women, Race, and Power in E.D.E.N. Southworth's Novels" Society for the Study of American Women Writers. Philadelphia, PA, 9 November 2006