Speaking Volumes

Essays by Zabelle Stodola, Ph.D.
Director, William G. Cooper, Jr. Honors Program
University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Zabelle Stodola, who publishes as Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola, is Professor of English at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. From 2003 to 2005, she was President of the Society of Early Americanists. She received two Summer Stipend Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1997 and 2003 as well as many other grants for her work. She has also served on the editorial boards of Early American Literature and Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers.

Her most recent book is Women's Indian Captivity Narratives, published by Penguin in 1998. She has also published The Indian Captivity Narrative, 1550-1900 co-authored with James A. Levernier (1993) and edited Early American Literature and Culture: Essays Honoring Harrison T. Meserole (1992) and The Journal and Occasional Writings of Sarah Wister (1987).