Carol Singley
Professor of English
Department of English
About the Speaker
Carol Singley is author or editor of five books on the Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, Edith Wharton. She also is the author of a book on adoption and literature, Adopting America: Childhood, Kinship and National Identity in Literature, and is the editor of three books on American literature and Puritan culture, women’s fiction, and American childhood.
Areas of Expertise
- 19th- and 20th-century American fiction and poetry
- Walt Whitman
- Women’s writing
- Children’s literature
- Adoption
- Changing images of the child
Carol Singley
Topics for
Carol Singley
Adoption
Child Development
Literature
Women's Issues