Doolen, Andy 1968-

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Doolen, Andy 1968-

PERSONAL:

Born October 16, 1968, in Chicago, IL; son of Carl and Mary Doolen. Education: University of Wisconsin—Eau Claire, B.A.; University of Rhode Island, M.A.; University of Arizona, Ph.D.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Department of English, University of Kentucky, 1215 Patterson Office Tower, Lexington, KY 40506-0027; fax: 859-323-1072. E-mail—andy.doolen@uky.edu.

CAREER:

Academician. Clemson University, Clemson, SC, assistant professor of English, 2001-03; University of Kentucky, Lexington, assistant professor, then associate professor of American literature and American studies, 2003—.

WRITINGS:

Fugitive Empire: Locating Early American Imperialism, University of Minnesota Press (Minneapolis, MN), 2005.

Contributor to journals, including Studies in American Fiction and American Literary History. Member of editorial board of the Arizona Quarterly.

SIDELIGHTS:

Andy Doolen is an American academician. Born in Chicago, Illinois, on October 16, 1968, Doolen attended the University of Wisconsin—Eau Claire after high school, earning a bachelor of arts degree. He followed his undergraduate studies by earning a master of arts from the University of Rhode Island, ultimately earning a Ph.D. in English from the University of Arizona in Tucson. Upon graduation, Doolen moved to Clemson, South Carolina, to accept an assistant professor position in the department of English at Clemson University. He held the position from 2001 until 2003, when he moved to the University of Kentucky, in Lexington. There he was soon promoted to associate professor, teaching American literature and American studies in the department of English. Doolen's primary areas of research include American novels, colonial-era through nineteenth-century American writing, narrative theory, and postcolonial and race theory. Doolen is a contributor to Studies in American Fiction and American Literary History.

In 2005 Doolen published his first book with the University of Minnesota Press, called Fugitive Empire: Locating Early American Imperialism. Fugitive Empire examines mid- and late-eighteenth-century North America and the narratives and personal accounts that were written during that tumultuous time when allegiances shifted and nations were created. In particular, Doolen examines these accounts to uncover a sense of the social climate and create a better understanding of American ideologies at that time. Doolen analyzes a number of texts in the process, ranging from novels about the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 to records of the New York Conspiracy Trials, including James Fenimore Cooper's The Pioneers and Notions of the Americans, Daniel Horsmanden's Journal of the Proceedings of the Detection of the Conspiracy, William Lloyd Garrison's tract, Thought on African Colonization, William Apess's autobiography A Son of the Forest, and Charles Brockden Brown's novel Arthur Mervyn.