English

Deborah Maltby

 

Associate Teaching Professor
427 Lucas Hall
314-516-5579
maltbyd@umsl.edu

Ph.D. in English and History, University of Missouri -Kansas City
M.A. in English, University of North Carolina Charlotte
B.A. in Journalism, University of South Carolina

 Deborah Maltby began to teach college English after a career in public relations and journalism. She has taught all levels of undergraduate writing and literature and conducted archival research in nineteenth century British government documents that marginalized rural workers. Her broad background enhances her classes in Advanced Expository Writing, Writing About Literature/Practical Criticism, and British literature. Always interested in challenging student learning, Dr. Maltby includes in some of her classes a service-learning component that connects writing and literature to community literacy in St. Louis. "What ties all this together for me is my love of reading, writing, and texts," she says