4 - Phillis Wheatley & The Economics of the Literary Marketplace

A Verse Reaction

Episode Summary: Dr. Beebe interview Susan Doty about the Economics of the Seventeenth-Century Literary Marketplace. She then applies this context to four poems by Phillis Wheatley: “On Being Brough from Africa to America,” “To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth,” “To S.M. a young African Painter,” and “To His Excellency General Washington.”

Part 1 (Biography & Overview) Starts: 00.00

Part 2 (Interview with Susan Doty) Starts: 19:36

Part 3 (Four Poems) Starts: 32:39

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Susan Doty is in her 15th year teaching at UT Tyler and her 30th year teaching in higher education, with previous experience at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, the Maxwell School of Public Policy at Syracuse University in New York, and the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. She has been recognized for excellent teaching with multiple awards. including the University of Texas System Regents Outstanding Teaching Award (the ROTA), the UT Tyler Student Life and Leadership Partner Award, the UT Tyler National Society of Leadership Student Choice Faculty Award, the UT Tyler Alpha Chi Outstanding Faculty Award, the Thad Cochran Economic Education Hall of Fame Award, and the National Albert Beekhuis Award for service to teachers and community. She serves on both the UT System Academy of Distinguished Teachers as a faculty fellow and the UT Tyler Academy of Distinguished Teachers as a founding fellow and past president. Most recently, she was awarded the title of Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the promotion to Distinguished Senior Lecturer. Doty has taught close to 7,500 UT Tyler students.

In addition to her faculty role at UT Tyler, she is the founding and executive director of the Center for Economic Education and Financial Literacy (CEEFL) at UT Tyler. She launched this center in 2010, after doing the same in Mississippi, to provide outreach to P-20 (pre-school to graduate school) educators to teach them how to integrate economics and personal finance into everything they teach. In this role, she has taught thousands of Texas K-12 teachers and has served on multiple state and national boards of directors. These include the Council for Economic Education in New York, the National Association of Economic Educators, the Global Economic Education Alliance, and the Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Finance.
Resources:

Carretta, Vincent. Phillis Wheatley Peters: Biography of a Genius in Bondage. U

of GA Press, 2023.

Dayton, Cornelia H. “Lost Years Recovered: John Peters and Phillis Wheatley

Peters in Middleton.” The New England Quarterly, vol. XCIV, no. 3, September 2021, pp. 309-351.

Waldstreicher, David. The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journeys

Through American Slavery and Independence. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2023.

"The Genius of Phillis Wheatley Peters" Project: https://wheatleypetersproject.weebly.com/