Fields: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture, Early Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture, African-American Literature, Cultural Studies, Children's Literature, Gender and Literature, Critical Theory
Biography:
Maude Hines is Professor of English, Chair of Black Studies, and affiliated faculty of Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies. She received her Ph.D. in Literature from Duke University, along with graduate certificates in African-American Studies and Women's Studies. She specializes in American literature, with particular emphasis and critical childhood studies, African American literature, and the Gothic. She is a founding member of PSU’s Homelessness Research & Action Collaborative (HRAC), where she leads the “Changing Narratives, Creating Action” research strand. She is currently completing a book about racial trauma and the temporal dimensions of gothic childhood.
On the PSU faculty since 2000.