Deborah Appleman is professor of educational studies and director of the Summer Writing Program at Carleton College. She also serves as the Associate Director of the American studies department. Professor Appleman is on sabbatical for the 2008-2009 academic year. She is teaching college-level language and literature courses at the Minnesota Correctional Facility-Stillwater for inmates who are interested in pursing post-secondary education. (Inmates can earn an associate's degree while incarcerated.) To keep up to date on Professor Appleman's activities, see her sabbatical blog.

Professor Appleman taught high school English for nine years before receiving her doctorate from the University of Minnesota. She was also a visiting professor at Syracuse University and at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Reading for Themselves: How to Transform Adolescents into Lifelong Readers Through Out-of-Class Book Clubs, Teaching Literature to Adolescents, Critical Encounters in High School English: Teaching Literary Theory to Adolescents, and Braided Lives: An Anthology of Multicultural American Writing.

To view a bibliography of Professor Appleman's work, click here.

Educational Studies Department,

Carleton College, Northfield, MN 55057, USA
Email: dapplema@carleton.edu
Phone: 507-222-4010
Fax: 507-222-4009