Debra Baldwin

Education

• B.A. University of Toronto, Philosophy and Political Science
• M.A. University of Chicago Committee on Social Thought Ph.D. University of Chicago Committee on Social Thought

Areas of Expertise

Joseph Conrad, the psychology of extreme conditions as depicted in modern literature, the artist as critic in the 20th century

Selected Publications

"'Simple Ideas' and Narrative Solidarity in "Prince Roman." The Conradian 35.1 (2010) (forthcoming). "Flannery O'Connor," Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.) "The Voice of Comedy in Conrad's Typhoon and Primo Levi's The Monkey's Wrench, Conradiana 38.1 (2006): 17-28. "Augustinian Physicality and the Rhetoric of the Grotesque in the Art of Flannery O'Connor," in Augustine and Literature, ed. K. Paffenroth (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield-Lexington Books, 2005). "The Horror and the Human: The Politics of Dehumanization in Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Primo Levi's Se questo e un uomo," Conradiana 37:3 (2005). "Politics, Martyrdom and the Legend of St. Thekla in Conrad's Under Western Eyes" in Conradiana, 32:2 (Spring, 2000): 144-157. "Models of Teaching and Models of Learning in the Confessions" in Augustine and Liberal Education, Kevin Hughes and Kim Paffenroth, eds., (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000)15-24. "Conrad's Victory and The Shadow-Line" in A Joseph Conrad Companion, Ted Billy and Leonard Orr, eds., (Westport, CT: The Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999)231-251. "'The Worker in Prose': Conrad's Anti-theoretical Theory of Art" in Conrad's Century: The Past and Future Splendour, ed. Laura Davis-Clapper (New York: Columbia UP, 1999)189-202. "'Victorious Wretch?' The Puzzle of Haldin's Name in Under Western Eyes," Conradiana, 30:1 (1998): 44-52.