Berneta Haynes

Program: English Ph.D
Began program in 2006
Area of Study: 20th Century African-American Literature and Gender Studies

E-Mail: berneta-haynes@uiowa.edu

Though I'm an Arkansas native, I attended and received my B.A. from Drury University in Springfield, Missouri. I left with three majors in English, Writing, and Psychology.

My influences are a host of feminist theorists and African-American authors from bell hooks to Catharine MacKinnon to Patrica Hill Collins. In addition, queer theory seems to be an interest coinciding, though still quite separate, from my interests in feminist theory.

My none-scholarly interests lie in creative writing, primarily short fiction. I have published several of my works in my home campus' literary magazines. I am currenly traviling down the road to publication in national literary journals and magazines. It is proving to be quite a long stretch.

Publications

The Black Woman's Prison: Church in Baldwin. published online at the Drury University website for the Annual Interdisciplinary Studies Conference.