Mary Jane Lupton
Professor Emeritus
Morgan State University
Baltimore, MD 21251
Education
Pottsville High School. Valedictorian, 1956.
Bucknell University. Phi Beta Kappa. Cum Laude with Honors in English Literature, 1960.
Temple University. M. A. in English, 1962.
Ph. D. in English, 1968.
Publications
Books
Lucille Clifton: Her Life and Letters. Westport, CT: Praeger Press, 2006.
James Welch: A Critical Companion . Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004.
Maya Angelou: A Critical Companion . Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998.
Menstruation and Psychoanalysis . Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993.
The Curse: A Cultural History of Menstruation. Expanded edition. With Janice Delaney. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988.
The Curse: A Cultural History of Menstruation. With Janice Delaney and Emily Toth. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1976. Translations: Dutch, German, and Japanese.
Sexism and Racism in Popular Basal Readers, 1964-1976 . Ed. Mary Jane Lupton. Racism and Sexism Resource Center for Educators, 1976.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning . Old Westbury, New York: Feminist Press, 1970.
b. Selected Essays (since 1989)
“Mirrors and Windows: Lucille Clifton’s Empowering Books
>>> About African American Boys.” SANKOFA: A Journal of African Children's and Young Adult Literature (Volume 6, 2007): 53-64).
“An Interview with James Welch.” American Indian Quarterly, Spring 2005.
“Remember My Name: Lucille Clifton’s Crazy Horse Poems.” Zora Neale Hurston Forum 18 (2004): 77-83.
"A Spinning in a Whirlwind: Sexuality in Maya Angelou's Sixth Autobiography." MAWA Review, October 2003: 1-6.
Two articles on Menstruation in The Women's Studies Encyclopedia, 2nd ed. Ed. Helen Tierney. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997.
"Maya Angelou." In American Writers Supplement IV, Part 1. New York: Scribner's, 1996. 1-19.
"Review Essay, Dolly McPherson, Order out of Chaos," in Black American Literature Forum 24:4 (1990): 809-14.
“Claude Dagmar Daly: An Annotated Bibliography." With Julia Reinhard Lupton. American Imago 47 (1990): 81- 91.
"Singing the Black Mother: Maya Angelou and Autobiographical Continuity." Black American Literature Forum 24 (1990): 257-76.
"Claude Dagmar Daly: Notes on the Menstruation Complex." American Imago 46 (1989): 1-20.
"Undeveloped Negative: Punctuation in Richard Wright." Period Styles: A History of Punctuation. New York: The Herb Lubalin Center of Design and Typography/Cooper Union School of Art (1988): 14-15.
c. Reprints
“A Little Hemming and More Greek.” In Critical Essays on Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Ed. Sandra Donaldson. New York: G. K. Hall, 1999.
"Singing the Black Mother." In I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: A Casebook. Reprinted from "Singing the Black Mother: Maya Angelou and Autobiographical Continuity." Ed. Joanne M. Braxton. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 129-48.
"The Significance of Momma Henderson in Angelou's Autobiographies." In Readings on Maya Angelou. San Diego: Greenhaven, 1997. 73-79.
"Maya Angelou," in Dictionary of Literary Criticism 77, Gale(1994): 7-14. Reprinted from "Singing the Black Mother: Maya Angelou and Autobiographical Continuity." Black American Literature Forum 24 (1990): 257-76.
d. Selected Lectures and Conference Papers
“Lucille Clifton’s Crazy Horse Poems.” Zora Neale Hurston Society. Baltimore, June, 2004.
"The Horse He Rode in On: The Poetry of James Welch. " Conference paper for Far West Popular Culture Association. Las Vegas, February, 2004.
"Maya Goes Calypso." Conference Paper for Mid-Atlantic Writers' Association. Baltimore, October, 2003.
"The Indian Warrior: On an Interview with James Welch." South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Baltimore, November, 2002.
" Spinning in a Whirlwind: Sexuality in Maya Angelou' s Sixth Autobiography.” Mid-Atlantic Writers' Association. Baltimore, October, 2002.
"James Welch Doesn' t Meet Buffalo Bill: The Heartsong of Charging Elk." Far West Popular Culture Association. Las Vegas, February 2001.
"The Nature of Animals in James Welch's The Death of Jim Loney." Far West Popular Culture Association. Las Vegas, February 2000.
"Maya Angelou: `On the Pulse of Morning.'" National Meeting, Popular Culture Association. Las Vegas, March 1996.
"Ken Bugul and the Abandoned Baobab." Zora Neale Hurston Society. Baltimore, 1996.
"Harlem in Jessie Fauset's Plum Bun." Mid-Atlantic Writers' Association. Baltimore, 1995.
"Cutting Stones: Alice Walker and Genital Mutilation." National Meeting, Popular Culture Association. New Orleans, 1993.
"Echoes of the Slave Narrative in Angelou's All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes." Mid-Atlantic Writers' Association. Baltimore, 1989.
Creator, Special Session, "The Quest for Autonomy in the Fiction of Alice Walker." Modern Language Association. Washington, D.C., December 1989.
"Maya Angelou and the Slave Narrative." National Women's Studies Association. Baltimore, June 1989.
Interview
Interview with Eugenia Collier. October 18, 2004. Baltimore.
Interview with Alexia Clifton. July 20, 2004. Baltimore.
Interview with Lucille Clifton. March 5, 2004. St. Mary’s City, Maryland.
Interview: Lenape Indians. September 2, 2002.
James Welch: The Montana Interview. July 10, 2002.
James Welch: The Baltimore Interview. November 17, 2001. 19 pages. Accepted for publication in American Indian Quarterly.
Autobiography Maya Angelou: Interview with Maya Angelou. 2wice . Ed. Patsy Tarr and J. Abbott Miller. 2:1 (1998): 53-59.
In Progress: A Biography of poet Lucille Clifton, for Praeger Press.
Mary Jane Lupton
P. O. Box 998
North Cape May, NJ 08204
phone: 609-898-7474
mjlupton@verizon.net
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