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Tara Fee, Ph.D.

Chair of the English Department

Academic Program: Creative Writing, English

Degrees: Ph.D. English and American Studies, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; B.A. English, Swarthmore College

Tara Fee is Chair of the Department of English. She is a graduate of Swarthmore College and came to W&J in 2005 after earning her Ph.D. in English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Fee teaches American literature, Asian American literature, and the memoir, as well as professional writing and advanced academic writing.

Publications

  • Fee, Tara. "All Is Well With Me." Tiny Love Stories. The New York Times. 20 Aug. 2019. pp. A3. Link to entry
  • Fee, Tara. “The Real Housewives of New England: Poverty and Epistemology in Lydia Maria Child’s The American Frugal Housewife,” ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, vol. 65, no. 1, 2019, pp. 1-32. Link to entry
  • Fee, Tara and Samuel Fee, eds. "Editors' Introduction: Originality in a Digital Culture," NANO: New American Notes Online Special Issue, Dec. 2016. Link to entry
  • Fee, Tara and Samuel Fee, "An Interview with Tony David Sampson, author of Virality: Contagion Theory in an Age of Networks," NANO: New American Notes Online Special Issue, Dec. 2016. Link to entry
  • Fee, Tara and Samuel Fee, "An Interview with George David Clark, Editor-in-Chief of 32 Poems," NANO: New American Notes Online Special Issue, Dec. 2016. Link to entry
  • Fee, Tara, "Computer Surveillance in the Classroom; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Panopticon," Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture, vol. 12, no. 2, Spring 2012, pp. 377-381. Link to entry
  • Fee, Tara. "Irreconcilable Differences: Voice, Trauma, and Melville's Moby-Dick," Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal, vol. 45, no. 4, Dec. 2012, pp. 137-153. Link to entry
  • Fee, Samuel and Tara Fee, "Visual Archaeology: Cultural Change Reflected by the Covers of Uncle Tom's Cabin," Journal of Visual Literacy, vol. 31, no. 2, 2012, pp. 35-48. Link to entry