Dr. Debra Walker King
Associate Provost for Faculty Development
Debra Walker King joined the university's English faculty in 1994 and the Provost office in 2003. She is a graduate of Emory University where she received her Ph.D. in interdisciplinary studies (1994), the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (English M.A., 1989), and North Carolina Central University (English B.A., 1981).
Professor King is a Patricia Harris Fellow, a Ford Fellow, and a Schomburg Scholar. She is the author of Deep Talk: Reading African American Literary Names and Naming (Univ. Press of Virginia, 1998) and editor of Body Politics and the Fictional Double (Indiana UP 2000)--a multi cultural essay collection exploring the various ways fictional representations and stereotypes of real female bodies influence our culture and our perception of women. She has also published articles and reviews in Names: The Journal of the American Name Society, Philosophy and Rhetoric, and African American Review; as well as contributed essays on women writers and their work to the Oxford Companion to African American Literature (Oxford UP, 1997) and Recovered Writers/Recovered Texts (Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1997). She is now concluding work on African Americans and the Culture of Pain, a book-length study of pain and its influences upon African American lives and literature.
Contact Information:
Dr. Debra Walker King
Associate Provost
238a Tigert Hall
PO BOX 113175
Gainesville, FL 32611-3175
Ph: (352) 392-6004
Fax: (352) 392-3575
E-mail: dwking@ufl.edu
