Debrah Raschke

Debrah Raschke serves as Professor of English at Southeast Missouri State University, specializing in Anglo-Irish Modernism and Twentieth/Twenty-First-Century Anglophone Literature with particular focus on gender, sexuality, and Canadian literary figures including Margaret Atwood and Doris Lessing.

She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and both M.A. and B.A. from Colorado State University. Her research examines how destabilized perceptions of truth influence artistic expression and gender dynamics, especially during modernism's emergence and in contemporary contexts.

Raschke's scholarly work centers on the interplay between metaphysical uncertainty and cultural transformation, analyzing how shifts in truth paradigms reshape artistic production and gender constructs. Her monograph Modernism, Metaphysics, and Sexuality (2006) and co-edited collection Doris Lessing: Interrogating the Times (2010) establish her expertise in modernist thought and contemporary cultural critique. Recent publications dissect Atwood's apocalyptic narratives as cultural diagnostics, exploring postmodernism's evolving role from solution to problem across The Handmaid's Tale and the MaddAddam trilogy.

Her article on Atwood's 'Death by Landscape' received the Atwood Society Best Article award (2012), reflecting her significant contributions to Canadian literary studies.

• Atwood Society Best Article (2012)

Raschke integrates pragmatics and visionary thinking in pedagogy, emphasizing language's power to reshape worldviews. She considers scholarly writing integral to teaching, using research to develop frameworks that empower student discovery. Her departmental profile highlights her commitment to connecting textual analysis with real-world applications while fostering critical engagement with linguistic structures.

Outside academia, she maintains interests in culinary arts, horticulture, and feline companionship.