Darcie Rives-East, Ph.D., M.A.
Professor of English
English & Journalism Department
Education
Ph.D. in English, 2006, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; M.A. in English, 1999, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; B.A. in English, 1996, Grinnell College
Biography
Dr. Darcie Rives-East teaches the survey course in American literature, as well as upper-level seminars on early and modern American literature. She also teaches literary criticism and theory in addition to foundational composition and literature courses (including Women's Literature, African American Literature and Environmental Literature). Further, she has taught several courses in the Civitas Honors Program and is the faculty advisor of Augustana F.E.M. (Feminist Equality Movement). Her interests include gender and ethnic studies and popular culture, with a particular emphasis on surveillance culture and Gothic literature and film. Her book, Surveillance and Terror in Post-9/11 British and American Television, was published in 2019 by Palgrave Macmillan. Rives-East was one of two recipients to be awarded the 2011-12 Carole Bland Cultivating Faculty Excellence Award. She was also the recipient of the Jane & Charles Zaloudek Faculty Research Fellowship in 2016-17. Rives-East's B.A. is from Grinnell College, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in English are from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
