LAPE, Noreen Groover 1966-

PERSONAL: Born September 9, 1966, in Hoboken, NJ; daughter of James S. and Patricia A. Groover; married Dale K. Lape, Jr. (a computer programmer), August 13, 1988; children: Miranda Ariel, Noah James. Education: College of St. Elizabeth, B.A. (summa cum laude), 1988; Temple University, M.A., 1991, Ph.D., 1996.

ADDRESSES: Office—Columbus State University, Department of Language and Literature, 4225 University Ave., Columbus, GA 31907. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Writer. West Chester University, West Chester, PA, English instructor, 1992–94, 1995–97; Columbus State University, Columbus, GA, associate professor of language and literature, 1997–.

MEMBER: Phi Kappa Phi.

AWARDS, HONORS: Spenser fellowship, Oxford University, 1999; Choice award for outstanding academic book, 2002, for West of the Border: The Multicultural Literature of the Western American Frontiers.

WRITINGS:

West of the Border: The Multicultural Literature of the Western American Frontiers, Ohio University Press (Athens, OH), 2000.

(Author of introduction) Mary Austin, One-Smoke Stories, Ohio University Press (Athens, OH), 2003.

Contributor of articles to periodicals, including College Literature, American Indian Quarterly, and Journal of Modern Literature. Contributor to books, including Prose by Victorian Women: An Anthology, edited by Andrea Broomfield and Sally Mitchell, Garland Publishing (New York, NY), 1995; and Breaking Boundaries: New Perspectives on Women's Regional Writing, edited by Sherrie A. Inness and Diana Royer, University of Iowa Press (Iowa City, IA), 1997.

WORK IN PROGRESS: An article on Susanna Moodie and Caroline Kirkland.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Legacy, June, 2002, Melody Graulich, review of West of the Border: The Multicultural Literature of the Western American Frontiers, p. 260.

Library Journal, September 15, 2000, Cynde Bloom Lahey, review of West of the Border, p. 75.