Merrily Dupree


Ph.D. Syracuse University
M.A. University of Nebraska at Lincoln
B.A. Colorado State University


Specialization:
Nineteenth and early twentieth-century American literature, women in literature, multi-cultural literature.

Research, Creative and/or Professional Development Activity:
I'm currently working on a book about Onoto Watanna, the first person of Asian descent to publish a novel, Miss Nume of Japan(1898), in the United States.
"Usually the Reward of Tosh": Edith Wharton's Business Education.' Edith Wharton Review 17.2 (2002): 1-14.
"'Snoway Talkcher Father': Nativism and the Modern Family in Babbitt ." Midwestern Miscellany (Michigan State University)28.3 (2000): 41-9.
"Sui Sin Far's Argument for Biculturalism in Mrs. Spring Fragrance." Asian American Studies. Ed. Esther M. Ghymn. New York: Peter Lang, 2000. 77-99.
"The New Woman, Progressivism, and the Woman Writer in Edith Wharton's The Fruit of the Tree." American Literary Realism 31.2 (1999): 44-62.