Debra Walker King
Associate Dean for Humanities
Areas of Responsibility
Responsible for the Following Departments
Responsible for the Following Centers, Programs, and Related Units
Brief Biography
Debra Walker King is Professor of English and, most recently, Associate Provost of Faculty Development at the University of Florida. As Associate Provost, she served a university-wide charge to coordinate and monitor faculty recruitment / retention efforts, administrative leadership training, faculty enhancement programming, academic diversity training and faculty quality of life initiatives. Under her leadership, UF secured an Alfred P. Sloan Faculty Career Flexibility Accelerator Grant — one of five grants awarded nation-wide. During the 2008-09 academic year, King was an American Council on Education Fellow at the Louisiana State University System’s Office. While there she worked under the mentorship of Dr. John Lombardi (System’s President) and Dr. Mike Martin (Chancellor of LSU A&M). King is a graduate of Emory University, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and North Carolina Central University.
Recognized as a Patricia Harris Fellow, Ford Fellow and a Schomburg Scholar, she is the author of Deep Talk: Reading African American Literary Names and Naming (Univ. Press of Virginia, 1998), African Americans and the Culture of Pain (University of Virginia Press, 2008) and editor of Body Politics and the Fictional Double (Indiana UP, 2000).
