ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR and DIRECTOR OF THE WRITING CENTER

Research interests: American literature, especially the literature of the Jazz Age

Dr. Drowne graduated with a B.A. in English from Colby College in Waterville, Maine, in 1992. She received an M.A. in English from the University of Connecticut in 1994 and a Ph. D. in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2000. Before coming to Missouri S&T (formerly known as UMR), Dr. Drowne was a resident fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University.

Dr. Drowne’s professional responsibilities at Missouri S&T include not only her work in the Department of English and Technical Communication, but also her administrative duties as the Director of the Writing Center.  In this capacity, she oversees three professional staff members and ten undergraduate peer writing tutors.  She has also begun implementing a new campus-wide summer reading program for incoming first-year students called the One Book Program.  More information on this program is available at http://onebook.mst.edu.

In 2004 Greenwood Press published The 1920s: American Popular Culture Through History, written by Dr. Drowne and her co-author, Dr. Patrick Huber of the Missouri S&T Department of History and Political Science.  In 2005, the Ohio State University Press published Dr. Drowne’s Spirits of Defiance: National Prohibition and Jazz Age Literature, 1920-1933.  She has also published articles in American Speech, Southern Cultures, and The Ellen Glasgow Newsletter and has just completed an article on Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises as a Prohibition novel.  She is currently working on a book tentatively titled The Flapper in American Literature of the Jazz Age.

Dr. Drowne primarily teaches American literature, but she has also taught writing classes and ENGL 202 Critical Approaches to Literature, the introductory course to the English major.  She also teaches each summer in Missouri S&T’s Hit the Ground Running program.

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