Wheeler, Elizabeth A. 1959-

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WHEELER, Elizabeth A. 1959-

PERSONAL: Born April 29, 1959, in Los Angeles, CA; daughter of Harrison L. (a marketing manager) and Phyllis H. (a homemaker) Wheeler; married John Shin, July 26, 1997; children: Kevin, Bridget. Ethnicity: "White." Education: Bowdoin College, A.B., 1981; Graduate Center of the City University of New York, M.A., 1988; University of California—Berkeley, Ph.D., 1996. Politics: "Progressive." Religion: Episcopalian.


ADDRESSES: Offıce—Department of English, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403.


CAREER: University of Oregon, Eugene, associate professor of English. Oregon Literacy Initiative, co-director.


MEMBER: Modern Language Association of America.


WRITINGS:

Uncontained: Urban Fiction in Postwar America, Rutgers University Press (Piscataway, NJ), 2001.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Research on the effects of consumerism on children's reading experiences.

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