Building: Marsh Hall, Room: A311
Campus Box: 60
Extension (on-campus): 304-384-5207
E-mail Address: bakerj@concord.edu
Office Hours:
MWF 10-11; TTH 11-12
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,(1990) Ed. D. in Curriculum and Instruction and English Education
- Marshall University, (1971) M.A. in English
- Concord College/University, (1968) B.S.Ed. (English and Art)
Dissertation: An Ethnographic Study of the Responses of College Freshmen to Contemporary Appalachian Short Stories
Selected Publications and Presentations
Presentation: “The Appalachian Sense of Place in American Literature” (with Dr. Delilah O’Haynes), Conference on Appalachian Geography and Geography Education, Pipestem Resort State Park, 2008.
Paper Read: "Experiences with Teaching Elizabeth Madox Roberts' The Time of Man.” Elizabeth Madox Roberts Conference. Herrodsburg, KY, 2007.
Published Article: “’I Went to School to You’: Honoring the Memory and Legacy of Louise McNeill Pease at Concord College.” Traditions: A Journal of West Virginia Folk Culture and Educational Awareness . 7 (2003).
Published Review: Wild Sweet Notes: Fifty Years of West Virginia Poetry 1950-1999. Journal of the Assembly on the Literature and Culture of Appalachia. 9 (2001).
Presentation: “Geography and Appalachian Literature.” West Virginia Geographic Alliance Institute. Concord University, June, 2000.
Published Article: “Women, Language, and the Argument for Education Reform in Antebellum Ladies’ Magazines.” Women and Language 20.2 (Fall 1997).
Presentation: “West Virginia Students Reading and Responding to Southern Appalachian Literature: What Better Way to Celebrate Their Culture and Heritage.” West Virginia State Reading Conference. The Greenbrier, White Sulphur Springs, WV, 1993.
Published Article: “’Alternative Readings of the Tradition’: Feminist Literary Criticism and the Writings of Benjamin Franklin.” Virginia English Bulletin. 40.2 (Fall 1990).
- Engl 435 The Contemporary American Novel
- Engl 435 The Postmodern American Novel