Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Assistant Professor
Office: Living Learning Academic 129
Phone: (828) 262-7225
E-mail:
beaulieea@appstate.edu
Curriculum Vitae (pdf format)
Betsy Beaulieu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, where she teaches primarily in Watauga College. Beaulieu holds a Ph.D. in twentieth-century British and American literature with a specialty in African American literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She also holds two Master's degrees: one in English from Georgetown University and one in Shakespeare from the University of York, England. Her undergraduate degree is from Providence College in Rhode Island.
Beaulieu teaches African American literature, Origins & Migrations: What's for Dinner? and Silenced Voices: Creative Responses to Oppression. She's also a member of the Women's Studies faculty and teaches a variety of Women's Studies courses, including Notorious Women, Black Women Writers, and Womanist Theory and Literature.
Beaulieu is the author of Black Women Writers and the American Neo-Slave Narrative: Femininity Unfettered (1999), and the editor of The Toni Morrison Encyclopedia (2003) and Writing African American Women: An Encyclopedia of Literature By and About Women of Color (2006).
When she's not teaching or writing, she's a voracious reader, a cook who specializes in desserts, a serious chocoholic, shell-collector, and poetry aficionado. Beaulieu is married and is the mother of eleven-year-old Sebastian, who is really into Harry Potter, basketball, golf, and strawberry ice cream.
