Deborah Smith Pollard
Associate Professor of English and Humanities
Education: Ph.D. Michigan State University; M.A.T. Wayne State University; B.A. Michigan State University.
Research Interests: African American literature and culture; gospel music.
Recent Publications: When the Church Becomes your Party: Contemporary Gospel (Wayne State UP, 2008); “That Text, That Timbre: Introducing Gospel Announcer Edna Tatum,” in Black Women and Music: Introducing Gospel Announcer Edna Tatum," ed. Linda F. Williams and Eileen Hayes (U of Illinois Press, 2007), pp. 93-118.
Email: debpoll(at)umd.umich.edu
Phone: (313) 593-5213
Fax: (313) 593-1902
Office: 3081 CB
Office Hours: MW 4:30-5:30pm (Fall 2008)