Lelekis, Debbie
Assistant Professor
Arts and Communication
Florida Institute of Technology
United States of America
Biography
Ph.D. University of Missouri M.A. University of South Florida B.A. University of South Florida
Research Interest
Dr. Lelekis published a book, American Literature, Lynching, and the Spectator in the Crowd: Spectacular Violence, in October 2015 with Lexington Books, a division of the academic press Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Her work examines how American literature at the turn of the twentieth century confronted and pushed beyond passive observation and static visual performances, which are traditionally associated with the terms "spectator" and "spectacle." Chapters focus on fictional lynch mob scenes in texts by Theodore Dreiser, Miriam Michelson, Irvin S. Cobb, and Paul Laurence Dunbar.
Publications
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"Women as Healers: Restoring and Preserving Community in Sarah Orne Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Firs." The Quint 5/4 (2013): 49-60.
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"Transposing Themes: Teaching Students to Connect to Literature Through Music." The Atrium: A Journal of Academic Voices 5/2 (2014): 1-14.
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"Pretty Maids All in a Row: Power and the Female Child in Burnett’s The Secret Garden." Anglica: An International Journal of English Studies 23/1 (2014): 63-71.
