Department of American Studies

Deborah Whaley

Assistant Professor of American Studies
PhD University of Kansas (2002, American Studies)
724 Jefferson Building
(319) 335-3494
deborah-whaley@uiowa.edu

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, popular culture, the fine arts, and film. Her first book project, Disciplining Women: Alpha Kappa Alpha, Black Counter-publics, and the Cultural Politics of Black Sororities, is an interdisciplinary examination of a historically Black sorority. She is currently working on her second book project, which concerns women of African descent in sequential art, looking in particular at comic strips, comic books, graphic novels, and anime. Whaley is co-curator, with Kembrew McLeod, of the upcoming University of Iowa Art Museum Exhibition Two Turntables and a Microphone: Hip-hop Contexts and the Photography of Harry Allen.

Curriculum Vitae

Courses Taught

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

45:129 African American Cinema and Culture

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

45:250 Seminar: Topics in American Studies
-Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies: Stuart Hall

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