{"id":5,"date":"2012-10-25T22:04:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T22:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/template-faculty01\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2020-07-24T00:55:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T00:55:21","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/paula-eckard\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"tm-content-container\">\n<div id=\"node-89\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/paula-eckard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/300\/2020\/07\/jaB3DLkYRBa7hlDRgKbuQ_thumb_203.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-46\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/paula-eckard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/300\/2020\/07\/jaB3DLkYRBa7hlDRgKbuQ_thumb_203-300x294.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"117\" height=\"115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/paula-eckard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/300\/2020\/07\/jaB3DLkYRBa7hlDRgKbuQ_thumb_203-300x294.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/paula-eckard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/300\/2020\/07\/jaB3DLkYRBa7hlDRgKbuQ_thumb_203-768x752.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/paula-eckard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/300\/2020\/07\/jaB3DLkYRBa7hlDRgKbuQ_thumb_203.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 117px) 100vw, 117px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222\">Dr. Eckard is Professor of English and the Chair of the English Department at UNC Charlotte.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222\">Previously, she served as Director of American Studies, Women&#8217;s and Gender Studies, and Graduate Liberal Studies (MALS).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Education<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ph.D. English, University of South Carolina<\/li>\n<li>M.A., M.H.D.L., University of North Carolina\u00a0at\u00a0Charlotte<\/li>\n<li>B.A., B.S.N., University of North Carolina\u00a0at\u00a0Charlotte<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Areas of Interest<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>American literature and culture<\/li>\n<li>Southern literature and culture<\/li>\n<li>Maternal studies<\/li>\n<li>Literature and medicine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Books<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em>Thomas Wolfe and Lost Children in Southern Literature. <\/em>Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 2016.<\/p>\n<p><em>Maternal Body and Voice in Toni Morrison, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Lee Smith<\/em>. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2002.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Articles<\/strong>\u00a0(selected)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cQueerness, Opioids, and Mountain Top Removal: The Politics of Destruction in <em>The Evening Hour.\u201d South Atlantic Review <\/em>83.3 (2018) 24-43.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cLost Childhood in Southern Literature.\u201d <em>The Southern Quarterly <\/em>54.3-4: (2017).\u00a075-93.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThomas Wolfe in Context: North Carolina Culture and the Digital World.\u201d <em>The <\/em><em>Thomas Wolfe Review <\/em>39.1-2: 49-52.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThomas Wolfe and \u2018the great engine\u2019 of Johns Hopkins Hospital.\u201d <em>The Thomas <\/em><em>Wolfe Review 37.1-2 (2013): 53-72.\u00a0 <\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201cCrossing Racial Boundaries in\u00a0<em>The Secret Life of Bees.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<em>The South Carolina Review\u00a0<\/em>45.2 (2013):\u00a0 120-34.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Entombed Maternal in Gloria Naylor\u2019s\u00a0<em>Linden Hills.\u201d Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters\u00a0<\/em>35.3 (2012): 795-809.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;&#8216;A Flash of Fire&#8217;: Illness and the Body in\u00a0<em>Look Homeward, Angel.&#8221;\u00a0 The Thomas Wolfe Review\u00a0<\/em>1-2.34 (2010): 6-24. Winner of the Zelda and Paul Gitlin Literary Prize for best scholarship published on Thomas Wolfe during 2010.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cNarrative, Work, and Grief in Thomas Wolfe\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Lost Boy.\u201d\u00a0 The\u00a0<\/em><em>Thomas Wolfe Review\u00a0<\/em>1-2.32 (2008): 7-21.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Ellen Foster: Survival in the New South.&#8221; Five Owls 17.3 (2004): 61-63.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;What Lies Beneath: Myth, Memory, and Obsession&#8221; (Review essay of Prodigals by Mark Powell and Moon Women by Pamela Duncan). North Carolina Literary Review 12(2003): 137-140.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Conjure Woman.&#8221; The Oxford Companion to African American Literature. Ed. William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster, and Trudier Harris. NY: Oxford UP, 1997.\u00a0\u00a0 167-68.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Moody, Anne.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 The Oxford Companion to African American Literature.\u00a0\u00a0 Ed. William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster, and Trudier Harris. NY: Oxford UP, 1997.\u00a0\u00a0 506-7.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Terrell, Mary Church.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 The Oxford Companion to African American Literature. Ed. William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster, and Trudier Harris. NY: Oxford UP, 1997. 718-19.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Good Hearts : Immersed in Time.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 The South Carolina Review 28.2 (1996): 78-85.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Prismatic Past in Oral History and Mama Day .&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 MELUS: Journal for Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 20.3 (1995): 121-135.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Interplay of Music, Language, and Narrative in Toni Morrison&#8217;s Jazz .&#8221; College Language Association Journal 38.1 (1994): 11-19.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Maternal Mythologies and Southern Literature: An Essay to Honor Julian Mason.&#8221; Postscript 10 (1993): 25-34.\u00a0\u00a0 (Essay on Beloved by Toni Morrison)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Grief, Work, and Narrative in Southern Fiction.&#8221; Society for the Study of Southern Literature Meeting, University of Alabama-Birmingham<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Memory, Landscape, and the Mother&#8217;s Body in <em>Spence + Lila<\/em>.&#8221;\u00a0 Southern Women Writers Conference, Berry College, Mt. Berry, GA<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Mediating the Matriarchal\/Patriarchal Dichotomy in Lee Smith&#8217;s <em>Saving Grace<\/em>.&#8221;\u00a0 American Academy of Religion Southeastern Regional Conference, Knoxville, TN<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<em>Feather Crowns<\/em> : Commodifying Southern Motherhood.&#8221; Society for the Study of Southern Literature Meeting, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<em>Crossing Blood<\/em> : Some Southern Dynamics of Race, Gender, and Language.&#8221;\u00a0 Virginia Humanities Conference, Christopher Newport College, Newport News, VA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Current Projects<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Medical Narratives of Thomas Wolfe<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Courses Taught<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>North Carolina Writers<\/li>\n<li>Major American Writers<\/li>\n<li>Introduction to Poetry<\/li>\n<li>Approaches to Literature<\/li>\n<li>American Literature 1870-1920<\/li>\n<li>American Literature 1920 to the Present<\/li>\n<li>Nineteenth Century American Novel<\/li>\n<li>Literature of the American South<\/li>\n<li>Modern American Literature<\/li>\n<li>Contemporary Southern Women Writers<\/li>\n<li>20th-21st Century Southern Novel<\/li>\n<li>Growing Up Southern<\/li>\n<li>Southern Folklore and Literature<\/li>\n<li>Appalachian Literature and Culture<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Professional Appointments<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Selected Professional Service<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Distinguished Service Director, Board of Directors, Thomas Wolfe Society, 2014-present.<\/li>\n<li>Editor, <em>The Thomas Wolfe Review, <\/em>2013-present.<\/li>\n<li>President, Thomas Wolfe Society, 2011-2013.<\/li>\n<li>Vice-President, Thomas Wolfe Society, 2009-2011.<\/li>\n<li>Editorial service for <em>North Carolina Literary Review; MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States; Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature; Frontiers: A Journal of Women\u2019s Studies; Signs, Journal of Women in Culture and Society; Studies in the Novel; <\/em>University of Georgia Press; University of South Carolina Press; Ohio State University Press; and University of Missouri Press.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Selected Community Service<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Member, Board of Directors, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), Charlotte Chapter.<\/li>\n<li>As JDRF Government Relations Chair, lobbied members of Congress for NIH funding for diabetes research, stem cell research, and other diabetes issues.<\/li>\n<li>A primary lobbyist for NC Senate Bill 911, &#8220;Care for School Children with Diabetes Act,&#8221; which passed unanimously in both houses of the North Carolina legislature and was signed into state law in 2002. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncga.state.nc.us\/gascripts\/BillLookUp\/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2001&amp;BillID=s911\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 911 \/ S.L. 2002-103\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Eckard is Professor of English and the Chair of the English Department at UNC Charlotte.\u00a0 Previously, she served as Director of American Studies, Women&#8217;s and Gender Studies, and Graduate Liberal Studies (MALS). 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