Paula M. Krebs
Professor of English
Office: Meneely 217
Office Hours: M, W 10:30-12 and by appt.
Phone: (508) 286-3610
Fax: (508) 286-8263
Email: pkrebs@wheatonma.edu
Degrees
Ph.D., M.A., Indiana University
B.A., La Salle College
Main Interests
Academic freedom and faculty governance, diversity and higher education
Research Interests
Victorian studies, imperialism, colonialism, postcolonialism, cultural studies, feminism, feminist pedagogy, queer studies
Teaching Interests
Victorian literature and culture, postcolonial studies, literary and cultural theory, queer studies, journalism
Other Interests
Editor, Academe, the national magazine of the American Association of University Professors
Director, Summer Institute for Literary and Cultural Studies, a Mellon-Foundation-funded four-week institute and mentoring program aimed at increasing diversity among PhD recipients in English
Student Projects
Supervised independent work in: Victorian women travelers in India; Chicana/o literature; Oscar Wilde; The Industrial Novel; The Poetry of Christina Rossetti and Emily Bronte; Rudyard Kipling and the Boer War; Tennyson; Travel Journalism; and many other topics
Selected Publications, Creative Work or Performances
Some recent academic publications:
Books
Gender, Race, and the Writing of Empire: Public Discourse and the Boer War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999
Co-editor, The Feminist Teacher Anthology: Pedagogies and Classroom Strategies. New York: Teachers College Press, 1998
Articles
"Wuthering Heights in the Culture of the English Department." In Approaches to Teaching Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. Ed. Terri Hasseler and Sue Lonoff. NY: Modern Language Association, 2006.
"Narratives of Suffering and National Identity in Boer War South Africa," Nineteenth-Century Prose (Fall 2005).
"Losing Our Way After the Imperial Turn: Charting Academic Uses of the Postcolonial." In After the Imperial Turn: Critical Approaches to 'National' Histories and Literatures. Ed. Antoinette Burton. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003.
"How Can a White Woman Love a Black Woman? Foreclosing Lesbian Desire in a Colonial Context." In White Women in Racialized Spaces. Ed. Samina Najmi and Rajini Srikanth. New York: SUNY Press, 2003. 193-205.
Selected recent journalism
"Ceding Control," The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 28, 2008, p. C3
"Little Muggle ISO Her Next Hogwarts," with Claire Buck, The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 21, 2008, p. B24.
"Colleges Focused on Teaching Too Often Neglect Research,â≈√ The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 23, 2005, p. B14
"One of Each: The Small College Multiplex English Department," Spring 2005, ADE Bulletin, Modern Language Association, New York.
"Infusing Race, Gender, and Class into the Curriculum at Wheaton College," On Campus with Women, AAC&U online newsletter, 34(1/2) Fall 2004/Winter 2005
"Coaching the Student in the Student-Athlete," The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 22, 2004, p. B5
"The Faculty-Staff Divide," The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 14, 2003, p. B5
"Why 'Family First' Is Not a Win for Academic Feminists," The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 21, 2001, p. B24.
"I Bowl, Therefore I Am," The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 22, 2001, p. B21
"The Bowling Camp Diaries" for slate.com
"Wheaton Does Diversity," Academe, September/October 2000.
InsideHigherEd columns:
The Lasting Impact of a Departmental Secretary Nov. 12, 2007;
Lessons Learned, Oct. 29, 2007;
InsideHigherEd series with Mary Krebs Flaherty:
Motivations for Students and Instructors June 26, 2006;
Counting Students April 24, 2006;
What We Can Expect From Students March 13, 2006;
Two Takes on Teaching January 17, 2006