Professor;
Department Chair

office: 116 Tate
phone: 573-882-6066
email: okkerp@missouri.edu
office hours: M-F, 9-4

Research and teaching areas:
19th century American literature
and women's literature
 

Patricia Okker

Chair of the department, Patricia Okker teaches 19th-century American literature and women's literature, with special emphasis on American periodicals. In 2003 she received a William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence, and she currently serves as President of the Research Society for American Periodicals (RSAP). In addition to published essays on Henry David Thoreau, Lydia Sigourney, William Gilmore Simms, E.D.E.N. Southworth, and Zitkala Sa, she is the author of Our Sister Editors: Sarah J. Hale and the Tradition of Nineteenth-Century Women Editors (University of Georgia Press, 1995) and Social Stories: The Magazine Novel in Nineteenth-Century America (University of Virginia Press, 2003). She is currently editing a collection of essays on serial fiction in U.S. minority presses.

Education
PhD 1990, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign

Selected Publications

• Patricia Okker. Social Stories: The Magazine Novel in Nineteenth-Century America University of Virginia Press, 2003 www.upress.virginia.edu
• Patricia Okker. Our Sister Editors: Sarah J. Hale and the Tradition of Nineteenth-Century American Women Editors University of Georgia Press, 1995

Courses Taught

• 3300: Survey of American Literature, Beginnings to 1865
• 4310/7310 and English 8310: American Women Writers, 1820-1865
• 4310/7310 and English 8310: Nineteenth-Century American Novel
• 8310: Periodicals and Nineteenth-Century American Literature
• English 8310: Nineteenth-Century American Novel

Selected Awards

• William T. Kemper Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching

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