Juliann Fleenor

Background

Juliann Fleenor was born on January 2, 1942, in Granite City, Illinois. She was the daughter of Darwin and Doris Evans.

Education

Juliann Fleenor attended Granite City Senior High School. She also graduated from Memphis State University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in 1971 and a Master of Arts in 1973. Besides, Fleenor earned a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Toledo in 1978.

Career

Juliann Fleenor worked at Harper College since 1992, where she was a Professor of English, co-chair of the English Department, and four years as President of the Faculty Senate, and retired in 2003. In addition to her teaching activity, Fleenor was always very active in her local community and was the first volunteer in the Suicide and Crisis Intervention organization in Memphis. Besides, she was responsible for founding the Toledo United Against Rape and was involved in helping to gain equal rights for women and minorities at various Toledo area institutions. She was active in the Barrington Area Arts Council and served for several years as an Editor for their nationally known literary journal, Whetstone.

The writing was always one of Juliann Fleenor's passions. She wrote and contributed to seven scholarly books. She used her maiden name, Julie Evans, when writing for popular publications and had numerous articles published in Ohio, The Toledo Alive, and other regional and national magazines. Fleenor also wrote short mystery stories and had several published in Woman's World, Detective Cases as well as other magazines of the genre. She also wrote three mystery plays that were presented by the Theatre Department at Bowling Green State University. Also, she has had several award-winning short stories published in several scholarly journals. Julie has had over four hundred short stories or articles published. Mary Todd Lincoln was one of her numerous interests, and at the time of her death, she was putting together a book about Mary Lincoln's life. As a result of her many years of research into both President and Misses Lincoln's life, Fleenor became well known for her expertise in this area. She also had several feature articles about Abraham Lincoln published in the Bowling Green Sentinel, and several of these were picked up by the wire services.

Achievements

• Juliann Fleenor was widely known as a writer and educator. She taught at Harper College for almost twenty years. As a writer, Fleenor was the author and contributor of seven scholarly books and among four hundred short stories and articles. She was best known for her book, The Female Gothic. Additionally, Juliann Fleenor was a co-founder of the Toledo United against Rape.

Works

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• book

  • The Female Gothic 1983

Views

In one interview, Juliann Fleenor said that she had been "highly lucky to have passion for what she did - write and teach. Perhaps those are all people need - luck and passion." She believed that without passion, luck did not come.

Quotations: "My career has, as it has been in the past with other women, a pattern of beginnings and endings, of starts, stops and beginning again. I was motivated to become a writer because writing allowed me to discover myself and the world around me."

Membership

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  National Council of Teachers of English , United States

• Juliann Fleenor was a board member and curriculum chair of the Illinois Community College Faculty Association.

  Illinois Community College Faculty Association , United States

  1993

Interests

• Mary Todd Lincoln
  
  Herb gardens, history of herbs

• Writers

  Alice Walker, Alice Munro, Amy Bloom, Joan Didion

Connections

Juliann Fleenor married David Fleenor on October 8, 1960. They had a son, David Jr.

Father:

Darwin Everas Evans

Mother:

Doris Lorraine Evans

Doris L. Evans's maiden name was Dudley.

Son:

David L. Fleenor Jr.

husband:

David L. Fleeno