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Roxanne Harde

Roxanne Harde is Professor of English at the University of Alberta's Augustana Faculty, where she also serves as Associate Dean, Research. A McCalla University Professor, Roxanne researches and teaches American literature and culture, focusing on popular culture, women’s writing and children’s literature, and Indigenous literature. Her most recent books are The Embodied Child, coedited with Lydia Kokkola (Routledge, 2017), Walking the Line: Country Music Lyricists and American Culture, coedited with Thomas Alan Holmes (Lexington, 2013, and Reading the Boss: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Works of Bruce Springsteen, coedited with Irwin Streight, (Lexington, 2010). Her essays have appeared in many journals, including Mosaic, Critique, Christianity and Literature, The Lion and the Unicorn, The Canadian Journal of American Studies, and International Research in Children’s Literature. She has published chapters in more than twenty collections of essays. An award-winning teacher, Roxanne has been invited to present workshops in Canada and Europe, and has published pedagogical essays in The Feminist Teacher, The Canadian Journal on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Team-Based Learning in the Social Sciences and Humanities, and Collected Essays on Teaching and Learning. She is currently dividing her time between a study of Americana singer-songwriters and new research on acquaintance rape in recent novels for young adults. In the winter of 2018, Roxanne held the Fulbright Canada Visiting Research Chair at Vanderbilt, working on the former, a project entitled, “Still Searching: Southern Singer-Songwriters, American Dreams.”
Phone: 780-679-1579
Address: Augustana Campus
4901 46 Avenue
Camrose AB Canada T4V4Z4

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Research paper thumbnail of Team-Based Learning in the First-Year English Classroom

Routledge eBooks, Jun 23, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of The Savage Inscription": Abolitionist Writers and the Reinscription of Slavery

Mosaic (Winnipeg), Jun 1, 2004

... by Roxanne Harde. ... In a conference paper on Emily Dickinson's "The Malay... more ... by Roxanne Harde. ... In a conference paper on Emily Dickinson's "The Malay took the Pearl," Paula Bennett argued that, although Dickinson supported the cause of abolition if not the Civil War, she reinscribed the boundaries between herself and the black other as she held the ...

Research paper thumbnail of “Enter your watchwoman”: Alanis Morissette’s feminist lessons

Feminist Media Studies, Jul 4, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of “Better Friends”: Marshall Saunders Writing Humane Education and Envisioning Animal Rights

Jeunesse, young people, texts, cultures, Dec 1, 2009

Research paper thumbnail of “Seeds Blowin’ Up the Highway in the South Wind”: Woody Guthrie’s Angry Sons and Daughters

BOSS, Aug 28, 2018

Both anger and hope drive Woody Guthrie's protest songs. Lyrics like "This Land Is Your Land" off... more Both anger and hope drive Woody Guthrie's protest songs. Lyrics like "This Land Is Your Land" offer a hopefully angry voice that continues to be heard in the work of contemporary American singer-songwriters. This essay analyzes the ways in which Guthrie's voice and vision continue to inform the songs of

Research paper thumbnail of Walking the line: country music lyricists and American culture

Choice Reviews Online, Apr 22, 2014

Contents: Introduction: Walking the line : the Dixie Chicks and the making of country lyricists /... more Contents: Introduction: Walking the line : the Dixie Chicks and the making of country lyricists / Thomas Alan Holmes and Roxanne Harde -- Nobody Knows but Me : Jimmie Rodgers and the body politic / Taylor Hagood -- Cindy Walker, Lyle Lovett, and the West / Thomas Alan Holmes -- Help your brother along the road : Hank Williams and the humane tradition / Steve Goodson -- JC : Johnny Cash and faith / Thomas Alan Holmes -- Religious doctrine in the mid-1970s to 1980s country music concept albums of Willie Nelson / Blase S. Scarnati -- Grace to catch a falling soul : country, gospel, and evangelical populism in the music of Dottie Rambo / Douglas Harrison -- Loretta Lynn, Appalachian storyteller and autobiographer / Laura Grace Pattillo -- Branded man : Merle Haggard\u27s romance of the outlier / Thomas Alan Holmes -- Townes Van Zandt : Now here\u27s what this story\u27s told / Pete Falconer and James Zborowski -- Wildness, eschatology, and enclosure in the songs of Townes Van Zandt / Michael B. MacDonald -- Where it counts I\u27m real : the complexities of Dolly Parton\u27s feminist voice / Samantha Christensen -- Sin City : Gram Parsons and the Christ-haunted South / Clay Motley -- Weeping willows and long black veils : the country roots of Roseanne Cash, from Scotland to Tennessee / June Skinner Sawyers -- They draft the white trash first \u27round here anyway : Steve Earle\u27s American boys / Roxanne Harde.https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/1048/thumbnail.jp

Research paper thumbnail of Civil Rights Childhood: Picturing Liberation in African American Photobooks. Katharine Capshaw. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. 344 pages

International Research in Children's Literature, Dec 1, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of What I Hold and What I Give Away: Miscarriage, Memory, and Mourning

Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement, Nov 1, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of One extra little girl": Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's Orphans

Research paper thumbnail of Subjectivity and Community: Identity, Sexuality, and the Body

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Research paper thumbnail of More Will Sing Their Way to Freedom: Indigenous Resistance and Resurgence

Socialist Studies/Études Socialistes, 2017

More Will Sing Their Way to Freedom: Indigenous Resistance and Resurgence

Research paper thumbnail of “Good Observers of Nature”: American Women and the Scientific Study of the Natural World, 1820–1885

Isis, 2008

... Good observers of nature : American women and the scientific study of the natural world, 1820... more ... Good observers of nature : American women and the scientific study of the natural world, 1820-1885 / Tina Gianquitto. ... this project, my particular appreciation goes to Zach Bishop, Joel Epstein, Karen Karbiener, Christopher Rutgers, and above all Marcellene Hearn, Ghada Jiha ...

Research paper thumbnail of The Embodied Child

Routledge eBooks, Sep 11, 2017

The Embodied Child: Readings in Children’s Literature and Culture brings together essays that off... more The Embodied Child: Readings in Children’s Literature and Culture brings together essays that offer compelling analyses of children’s bodies as they read and are read, as they interact with literat ...

Research paper thumbnail of “What about Justice?”: Persisting Girls in Young Adult Rape Fiction

Research paper thumbnail of “At rest now”: Child Ghosts and Social Justice in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing

Research paper thumbnail of Civil Rights Childhood: Picturing Liberation in African American Photobooks by Katharine Capshaw

Children's Literature, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of The Legacy Book in America, 1664–1792

Zea Books, 2021

Legacy books in colonial America were instruments for the transmission of cultural values between... more Legacy books in colonial America were instruments for the transmission of cultural values between generations: the dying mother (usually) instructing and advising children on the path to salvation and heavenly reunions. They were a popular and influential form of women’s discourse that distilled the ideologies of the religious establishment into practical and emotional lessons for lay persons, especially the young. This collection draws together legacy texts written by colonial American women and girls: five mother’s legacy books and two legacies by children, organized here chronologically. These legacies were writ­ten in anticipation of dying, making awareness of death central to the texts. All are highly personal, revealing the thought processes and emotive patterns of their authors, and all are meant for the comfort and instruction of the loved ones these dying women and girls were leaving behind. Published between 1664 and 1792, these texts provide insight into early New England...

Research paper thumbnail of “Consuming themselves endlessly”

Constructing Coherence in the British Short Story Cycle, 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Talking Back to History in Indigenous Picturebooks

International Research in Children's Literature, 2020

This article examines how Indigenous picturebook authors counter Canada's history of child re... more This article examines how Indigenous picturebook authors counter Canada's history of child removal. Drawing on Daniel Justice's mandate to read Indigenous writing as political, intellectual, artist...

Research paper thumbnail of Girls and Rape Culture

Girlhood Studies, 2021

In 1983, Andrea Dworkin addressed the Midwest Men’s Conference in Minneapolis. She discussed the ... more In 1983, Andrea Dworkin addressed the Midwest Men’s Conference in Minneapolis. She discussed the rape culture in which we live, noted the similarities between rape and war, and, following the title of her talk, asked for a “24-hour truce in which there is no rape.” And she asked why men and boys are so slow to understand that women and girls “are human to precisely the degree and quality that [they] are” (n.p.). Every sexual assault begins with the dehumanization of the victim. And sometimes, after the violation, after the pain and the fear, comes the institutional dehumanization visited upon the victim who seeks medical or legal help. Two recent memoirs bring to the surface rape culture, evident in the young men who raped these girls and the systemic dehumanization they suffered when they sought justice. Chanel Miller’s Know My Name (2019) describes the aftermath of being sexually assaulted, when she was just out of college and still living at home, by someone she met at a fraterni...

Research paper thumbnail of Team-Based Learning in the First-Year English Classroom

Routledge eBooks, Jun 23, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of The Savage Inscription": Abolitionist Writers and the Reinscription of Slavery

Mosaic (Winnipeg), Jun 1, 2004

... by Roxanne Harde. ... In a conference paper on Emily Dickinson's "The Malay... more ... by Roxanne Harde. ... In a conference paper on Emily Dickinson's "The Malay took the Pearl," Paula Bennett argued that, although Dickinson supported the cause of abolition if not the Civil War, she reinscribed the boundaries between herself and the black other as she held the ...

Research paper thumbnail of “Enter your watchwoman”: Alanis Morissette’s feminist lessons

Feminist Media Studies, Jul 4, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of “Better Friends”: Marshall Saunders Writing Humane Education and Envisioning Animal Rights

Jeunesse, young people, texts, cultures, Dec 1, 2009

Research paper thumbnail of “Seeds Blowin’ Up the Highway in the South Wind”: Woody Guthrie’s Angry Sons and Daughters

BOSS, Aug 28, 2018

Both anger and hope drive Woody Guthrie's protest songs. Lyrics like "This Land Is Your Land" off... more Both anger and hope drive Woody Guthrie's protest songs. Lyrics like "This Land Is Your Land" offer a hopefully angry voice that continues to be heard in the work of contemporary American singer-songwriters. This essay analyzes the ways in which Guthrie's voice and vision continue to inform the songs of

Research paper thumbnail of Walking the line: country music lyricists and American culture

Choice Reviews Online, Apr 22, 2014

Contents: Introduction: Walking the line : the Dixie Chicks and the making of country lyricists /... more Contents: Introduction: Walking the line : the Dixie Chicks and the making of country lyricists / Thomas Alan Holmes and Roxanne Harde -- Nobody Knows but Me : Jimmie Rodgers and the body politic / Taylor Hagood -- Cindy Walker, Lyle Lovett, and the West / Thomas Alan Holmes -- Help your brother along the road : Hank Williams and the humane tradition / Steve Goodson -- JC : Johnny Cash and faith / Thomas Alan Holmes -- Religious doctrine in the mid-1970s to 1980s country music concept albums of Willie Nelson / Blase S. Scarnati -- Grace to catch a falling soul : country, gospel, and evangelical populism in the music of Dottie Rambo / Douglas Harrison -- Loretta Lynn, Appalachian storyteller and autobiographer / Laura Grace Pattillo -- Branded man : Merle Haggard\u27s romance of the outlier / Thomas Alan Holmes -- Townes Van Zandt : Now here\u27s what this story\u27s told / Pete Falconer and James Zborowski -- Wildness, eschatology, and enclosure in the songs of Townes Van Zandt / Michael B. MacDonald -- Where it counts I\u27m real : the complexities of Dolly Parton\u27s feminist voice / Samantha Christensen -- Sin City : Gram Parsons and the Christ-haunted South / Clay Motley -- Weeping willows and long black veils : the country roots of Roseanne Cash, from Scotland to Tennessee / June Skinner Sawyers -- They draft the white trash first \u27round here anyway : Steve Earle\u27s American boys / Roxanne Harde.https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/1048/thumbnail.jp

Research paper thumbnail of Civil Rights Childhood: Picturing Liberation in African American Photobooks. Katharine Capshaw. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. 344 pages

International Research in Children's Literature, Dec 1, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of What I Hold and What I Give Away: Miscarriage, Memory, and Mourning

Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement, Nov 1, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of One extra little girl": Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's Orphans

Research paper thumbnail of Subjectivity and Community: Identity, Sexuality, and the Body

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Research paper thumbnail of More Will Sing Their Way to Freedom: Indigenous Resistance and Resurgence

Socialist Studies/Études Socialistes, 2017

More Will Sing Their Way to Freedom: Indigenous Resistance and Resurgence

Research paper thumbnail of “Good Observers of Nature”: American Women and the Scientific Study of the Natural World, 1820–1885

Isis, 2008

... Good observers of nature : American women and the scientific study of the natural world, 1820... more ... Good observers of nature : American women and the scientific study of the natural world, 1820-1885 / Tina Gianquitto. ... this project, my particular appreciation goes to Zach Bishop, Joel Epstein, Karen Karbiener, Christopher Rutgers, and above all Marcellene Hearn, Ghada Jiha ...

Research paper thumbnail of The Embodied Child

Routledge eBooks, Sep 11, 2017

The Embodied Child: Readings in Children’s Literature and Culture brings together essays that off... more The Embodied Child: Readings in Children’s Literature and Culture brings together essays that offer compelling analyses of children’s bodies as they read and are read, as they interact with literat ...

Research paper thumbnail of “What about Justice?”: Persisting Girls in Young Adult Rape Fiction

Research paper thumbnail of “At rest now”: Child Ghosts and Social Justice in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing

Research paper thumbnail of Civil Rights Childhood: Picturing Liberation in African American Photobooks by Katharine Capshaw

Children's Literature, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of The Legacy Book in America, 1664–1792

Zea Books, 2021

Legacy books in colonial America were instruments for the transmission of cultural values between... more Legacy books in colonial America were instruments for the transmission of cultural values between generations: the dying mother (usually) instructing and advising children on the path to salvation and heavenly reunions. They were a popular and influential form of women’s discourse that distilled the ideologies of the religious establishment into practical and emotional lessons for lay persons, especially the young. This collection draws together legacy texts written by colonial American women and girls: five mother’s legacy books and two legacies by children, organized here chronologically. These legacies were writ­ten in anticipation of dying, making awareness of death central to the texts. All are highly personal, revealing the thought processes and emotive patterns of their authors, and all are meant for the comfort and instruction of the loved ones these dying women and girls were leaving behind. Published between 1664 and 1792, these texts provide insight into early New England...

Research paper thumbnail of “Consuming themselves endlessly”

Constructing Coherence in the British Short Story Cycle, 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Talking Back to History in Indigenous Picturebooks

International Research in Children's Literature, 2020

This article examines how Indigenous picturebook authors counter Canada's history of child re... more This article examines how Indigenous picturebook authors counter Canada's history of child removal. Drawing on Daniel Justice's mandate to read Indigenous writing as political, intellectual, artist...

Research paper thumbnail of Girls and Rape Culture

Girlhood Studies, 2021

In 1983, Andrea Dworkin addressed the Midwest Men’s Conference in Minneapolis. She discussed the ... more In 1983, Andrea Dworkin addressed the Midwest Men’s Conference in Minneapolis. She discussed the rape culture in which we live, noted the similarities between rape and war, and, following the title of her talk, asked for a “24-hour truce in which there is no rape.” And she asked why men and boys are so slow to understand that women and girls “are human to precisely the degree and quality that [they] are” (n.p.). Every sexual assault begins with the dehumanization of the victim. And sometimes, after the violation, after the pain and the fear, comes the institutional dehumanization visited upon the victim who seeks medical or legal help. Two recent memoirs bring to the surface rape culture, evident in the young men who raped these girls and the systemic dehumanization they suffered when they sought justice. Chanel Miller’s Know My Name (2019) describes the aftermath of being sexually assaulted, when she was just out of college and still living at home, by someone she met at a fraterni...

Research paper thumbnail of The Legacy Book in America 1664 1792

The Legacy Book in America 1664 1792, 2021

Legacy books in colonial America were instruments for the transmission of cultural values between... more Legacy books in colonial America were instruments for the transmission of cultural values between generations: the dying mother (usually) instructing and advising children on the path to salvation and heavenly reunions. They were a popular and influential form of women's discourse that distilled the ideologies of the religious establishment into practical and emotional lessons for lay persons, especially the young. This collection draws together legacy texts written by colonial American women and girls: five mother's legacy books and two legacies by children, organized here chronologically. These legacies were writ ten in anticipation of dying, making awareness of death central to the texts. All are highly personal, revealing the thought processes and emotive patterns of their authors, and all are meant for the comfort and instruction of the loved ones these dying women and girls were leaving behind. Published between 1664 and 1792, these texts provide insight into early New England culture through to the first years of the republic. Included are:

Research paper thumbnail of Walking the Line: Country Music Lyricists and American Culture

Research paper thumbnail of Reading the Boss: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Works of Bruce Springsteen

Research paper thumbnail of Narratives of Community

Research paper thumbnail of Embodied Child Flyer.pdf

The Embodied Child: Readings in Children’s Literature and Culture brings together essays that off... more The Embodied Child: Readings in Children’s Literature and Culture
brings together essays that offer compelling analyses of children’s bodies as they read and are read, as they interact with literature and other cultural artifacts, and as they are constructed in literature and popular culture. The chapters examine the ideology behind the cultural constructions of the child’s body and the impact they have on society, and how the child’s body becomes a carrier of cultural ideology within the cultural imagination. They also consider the portrayal of children’s bodies in terms of the seeming dichotomies between healthy-vs-unhealthy bodies as well as able-bodied-vs-disabled, and examines flesh-and-blood bodies that engage with literary texts and other media. The contributors bring perspectives from anthropology, communication, education, literary criticism, cultural studies, philosophy, physical education, and religious studies. With wide and astute coverage of disparate literary and cultural texts, and lively scholarly discussions in the introductions to the collection and to each section, this book makes a long-needed contribution to discussions of the body and the child.