Department of American Studies

Deborah Whaley

Associate Professor of American Studies
PhD University of Kansas (2002, American Studies)
724 Jefferson Building
(319) 335-3494
deborah-whaley@uiowa.edu
http://www.deborahelizabethwhaley.com

Research Interests

Deborah Whaley’s teaching and research fields include the institutional history, theory, and methods of American Studies, 19th & 20th century American Cultural History, Comparative Ethnic Studies, Black Cultural Studies, Popular Culture, the Visual & Expressive Arts, Feminist & Gender Studies, and Critical Theory. Whaley has published in peer-reviewed journals and book anthologies on Black Greek-letter Organizations, new directions in American Studies, popular culture, performance, the fine arts, and film. Her first book project, Disciplining Women: Alpha Kappa Alpha, Black Counterpublics, and the Cultural Politics of Black Sororities (SUNY 2010), is an interdisciplinary examination of a historically Black sorority. She is currently working on her second book project, titled Sequential Subjects: Black Women in Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime, which concerns women of African descent as consumers, producers, and as subjects in comic strips, graphic novels, comic books, film, and anime. Whaley is co-curator, with Kembrew McLeod, of the 2010 University of Iowa Art Museum Exhibition Two Turntables and a Microphone: Hip-hop Contexts Featuring Harry Allen's Part of the Permanent Record; Photos From the Previous Century. She hosts a mentorship blogsite for undergraduates, graduate students, post doctoral students and new faculty at http://dwhaleymentorship.blogspot.com/ and she hosts an academic blogsite at: http://dwhaley.blogspot.com.

Curriculum Vitae

Courses Taught

45:01 Understanding American Cultures

45:20 Sources for American Studies

45:25 Diversity and American Identities

45:30 Introduction to African American Culture

45:090 Seminar in American Cultural Studies
-Diversity & American Identities

45:102 Black Popular Music

45:129 African American Cinema and Culture

45:135 The Social Construction of Whiteness

45:150 Topics in American Cultural Studies
-Black Popular Culture

45:201 Theory & Practice in American Studies II

45:250 Seminar: Topics in American Studies
-Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies: Stuart Hall
-Classics in American Studies (summer 2010)

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