Skip to Navigation Skip to Content Skip to Search Keyboard Shortcuts

English

Stodola, Zabelle

Zabelle Stodola, PhD
Director, William G. Cooper, Jr., Honors Program

Rank: Professor
Office: 501-D Stabler Hall
Office Phone: 569.8315
Home Phone: 664.8747
E-mail: kzstodola@ualr.edu

Educational Background

PhD, Pennsylvania State University

Areas of Focus

Early American Literature, Women Writers, and Captivity Narratives

Publishing Vita

  • Her most recent book is The War in Words: Reading the Dakota Conflict through the Captivity Literature, which came out from the University of Nebraska Press in 2009. This critical monograph examines the radically and “racially” different cultural, literary, class, gendered, and historical discourses in twenty-four of the dozens of captivity narratives by European Americans and Native Americans concerning the 1862 U.S.-Dakota Conflict in Minnesota.
  • She has also published The Indian Captivity Narrative, 1550-1900 (co-authored with James A. Levernier, 1993) and edited Women’s Indian Captivity Narratives (1998), Early American Literature and Culture: Essays Honoring Harrison T. Meserole (1992), and The Journal and Occasional Writings of Sarah Wister (1987). Her recent articles include the following:
    • Profile of “Ann Eliza Webb Young (Denning).” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 26 (2009): 150-59.
    • “Captivity, Liberty, and Early American Consciousness.” Review essay. Early American Literature 43 (2008): 715-24.
    • “‘Many persons say I am a “Mono Maniac”‘: Three Letters from Dakota Conflict Captive Sarah F. Wakefield to Missionary Stephen R. Riggs, Prospects: An Annual Journal of American Cultural Studies 29 (2004): 1-24.
    • “Dime Novels.” Co-authored with Colin T. Ramsey. In A Companion to American Fiction 1780-1865, edited by Shirley Samuels. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. 262-73.
    • “The Captive as Celebrity.” In Lives out of Letters: Essays in American Literary Biography and Documentation, edited by Robert D. Habich. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2004. 65-92
  • From 2003 to 2005, she was President of the Society of Early Americanists. She has received two Summer Stipend Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (in 1997 and 2003) as well as many other grants for her work. She has also served on the editorial boards of Early American Literature and Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers and is currently on the editorial board of Literature in the New Republic.
  • Locally, she is known as the voice of “Speaking Volumes,” spots on literary topics that she conceptualized and developed on KLRE and KUAR, the two National Public Radio stations based in Little Rock that air throughout the state.

      Updated 10.2.2009