Erica Abrams Locklear
Assistant Professor

Education:
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

Ph.D in English

Focus: American, Southern, Appalachian, and Literacy Studies

Dissertation: "The Perils and Empowerments of Mountain Literacies:

Reading Loss and Shifting Identities in Appalachian Memoirs and Novels"

Utah State University, Logan, UT

M.S. in English/Technical Writing

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

B.A. in Education and English

Recent teaching:
Language 120 Foundation of Academic Writing

Literature 324 American Literary Tradition

Literature 373 ST: Race and Ethnicity in Southern American Literature

Contact information:
Office:  217 Karpen Hall
Office Phone:  (828)251-6592
Email:  Erica Abrams Locklear

Recent scholarship:

"Consenting to Create: The Affrilachian Movement," Crossroads: A Southern Culture Annual 2007, forthcoming

"Narrating Socialization: Linda Scott DeRosier's Memoirs," Community Literacy Journal, (special edition on Appalachian literacies) Fall, 2007

"What Are You?:" Exploring Racial Categorization in Nowhere Else on Earth," The Southern Literary Journal, 39.1 Fall, 2006: 33-53

Fragrant Memories: They'll Get Your Attention: "North Carolina Journal of Folklore, 54.1 Spring/Summer, 2007: 12-17

"The Stench of a Mountain Tradition: Ramp Foodways in Appalachia," North Carolina Journal of Folklore, 53.1 Spring/Summer, 2006: 4-18

Review of The King of Stink: Appalachian Ramp Festivals, Directed by Steven Provence and Sharon Ford, North Carolina Journal of Folklore, 53.2 Fall/Winter, 2006: 60-61

Review of Whistlin' and Crowin' Women of Appalachia: Literacy Practices since College, by Katherine Kelleher Sohn, Appalachian Journal, 33.3-4 Spring/Summer, 2006: 358-60

"Varying Theories: Early Native American Perceptions of Literacy," Used as a model in Irvin Peckham's Introduction to Writing at LSU New York: McGraw Hill, 2004. Online

The Fable Fair (adolescent educational fiction), Waterford Institute, Sandy, Utah: Pearson Education, 2004

Personal Statement:

As someone who grew up in Western North Carolina (Leicester, to be exact), I am downright ecstatic to have a faculty appointment with the Literature and Language department at UNC Asheville. My research interests include Appalachia, literacy, the South, and gendered issues within each of these categories. I teach the survey of American literature on a regular basis, as well as various writing and literature courses related to my field of study. Currently I am at work on a manuscript that explores how mountain writers portray the identity conflicts literacy attainment can cause for Appalachian women. When I am not teaching or writing I enjoy swimming, hiking, and perhaps most of all, being at home again in the mountains of North Carolina.