Office: DDM
104
Phone: 540-568-6310, Furious Flower Poetry Center - 540-568-8883
Email: gabbinjv@jmu.edu
Office Hours: Spring 2008 TT 1:30-4:30
Title: Founder: Furious Flower Poetry Center; Professor of English
Courses:
Spring 2008
Eng 361 - African American Fiction Writers
Awards:
the College Language Association Creative Scholarship Award
for her book Sterling A. Brown (1986), the James Madison University
Faculty Women’s Caucus and Women’s Resource Network for Scholarship
(1988), and the Outstanding Faculty Award, Virginia State Council
of Higher Education. She is also founder and organizer of the
Wintergreen Women Writers’ Collective. She organized and
directed the historic Furious Flower: A Revolution in African
American Poetry conference that brought 35 renowned poets and
critics to James Madison University in 1994. Two books and a
video anthology were produced from that conference. In 2004,
Gabbin organized the second Furious Flower poetry conference;
a new video anthology will be available through California Newsreel
in September 2005. Recently, Dr. Gabbin was the recipient of
two faculty awards: the Provost’s Award for Distinguished
Service and the JMU Alumni Distinguished Faculty Award. In October
2005, Dr. Gabbin was inducted into the International Literary
Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent.
Publications:
She is author of Sterling A. Brown: Building the Black Aesthetic
Tradition, which was published in a new edition by the University
Press of Virginia in 1994. Gabbin has published essays in Wild Women
in the Whirlwind, edited by Joanne M. Braxton and Andree Nicola McLaughlin
and Southern Women Writers: The New Generation, edited by Tonette
Bond Inge. Her articles have also appeared in The Dictionary of Literary
Biography, The Zora Neale Hurston Forum, The Oxford Companion to
Women’s Writing, the Langston Hughes Journal, Callaloo, The
Oxford Companion to African American Literature, and Black Books
Bulletin.
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