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Deborah Evans is an Assistant Professor at Middlebury College, jointly appointed in American Studies and English and American Literatures. She holds a B.A. from the University of Michigan and an M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she specialized in early American literature and 19th-century American literature. She has taught at Middlebury since 1996 and offers courses on topics including American regionalism (particularly the South and West), captivity narratives, western films, tourism history, and controversies surrounding American monuments and memorials.
- Education: B.A., University of Michigan; M.A., Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Her research focuses on confederate monuments and remembrance practices in the American South. She has pioneered innovative pedagogies, notably using the Reacting to the Past game format in courses like Chicago '68: The Democratic National Convention and Watergate, 1974–1975. She also serves as faculty lead for Middlebury’s Mellon Grant initiative supporting the development of the Sophomore Seminar in the Liberal Arts, which helps students explore the meaning and purpose of their liberal arts education.
Evans teaches a range of courses, including:
- AMST 0108: Childhood in America (cultural construct analysis)
- AMST 0231: Tourism in American Culture (history of tourism)
- AMST 0251: Monuments and Memorials (public memory debates)
- AMST 0291: Portraits of the Lady (New Woman in literature/art)
- Reacting to the Past games exploring historical inflection points
She advises independent studies (AMST 0500), senior theses (AMST 0701, 0710), and creative writing projects (CRWR 0560, 0701).
