Academics

Department of English

Dr. Hazel Arnett Ervin

Associate Professor of English
&
Director, General Education

 



Hazel Arnett Ervin teaches Composition, Harlem Renaissance, Major Authors of African American Literature, Contemporary African American Novel, and Major Authors: Crime and Punishment.  Her research interests include literary criticism, writer Ann Petry, and curriculum development and assessment for college and secondary institutions.  Maintaining an interest in the humanities and education, Ervin is a Fulbright Scholar, UNCF/Andrew Mellon Fellow, founder of the annual, student-oriented Pre-Scholars in the Humanities Symposium, consultant and board member to several assessment groups and organizations, a biographee in Who’s Who in Black Atlanta, The World Who’s Who of Women (England), and Who’s Who Among African Americans, and the recipient of numerous grants and awards.



Education
Ph.D. in African American Literature, Howard University

M.A. in English and African American Literature,  N.C. A&T State University

B.A. in English (with teacher certification), Guilford College



Selected Publications
“African American Literature.”  In Reader in America Today: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Contemporary Popular American Literature. Edited by Ken Womack.
(Prager/Greenwood Press, 2007).

“Ann Petry’s Country Place.” In African American Literature Beyond Race: An Alternative Reader. Edited by Gene Jarrett. (New York University Press, 2006).

The Critical Response to Ann Petry (Praeger/Greenwood Press, 2005)

“‘The Hidden Hand’ of Feminist Revolt in Ann Petry’s The Street.”  In The Critical Response to Ann Petry. Edited by Hazel Arnett Ervin. (Praeger/Greenwood Press, 2005).

The Handbook to African American Literature. (University of Florida Press 2004).

Ann Petry’s Short Fiction: Critical Essays, co-edited with Hilary Holladay (Praeger/Greenwood Press, 2004).

African American Literary Criticism, 1773 to 2000 (Twayne/Macmillan/Gale Group, 1999).

“Adieu, Harlem’s Adopted Daughter, Ann Petry.”  Langston Hughes Review 15.1 (Spring 1997): 71-73.

“Ann Petry.”  In The Oxford Companion to African American Literature. Edited by William Andrews, Trudier Harris and Frances Smith Foster. (Oxford UP, 1997).

“Tituba of Salem Village.”  In The Oxford Companion to African American Literature. Edited by William Andrews, Trudier Harris and Frances Smith Foster. (Oxford UP, 1997).

Ann Petry: A Bio-Bibliography (G. K. Hall, 1993).



Contact
Wheeler 103
ext. 2061
hervin@morehouse.edu