Education:
B.A., Florida International University
M.A., Georgia State University
PhD., University of Kentucky

Research Areas:
American Literature, Critical Race Theory, Women's & Gender Studies

Julie Cary Conger is an associate professor of English and a faculty member in the Women's & Gender Studies Program. She earned a doctoral degree in American Literature, as well as graduate certificates in Women's Studies and in Social Theory, from the University of Kentucky in 2002. She earned her M.A. degree in English from Georgia State University and her B.A. degree in English from Florida International University.

Her primary research and teaching areas include nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States literature and culture; critical race theory; African American literature and culture; and Women's & Gender Studies. She is editor of and contributor to a collection of critical essays entitled Passing Interest: Racial Passing in U. S. Novels, Memoirs, Television, and Film, 1990-2010 (SUNY P, 2014), and the contributing editor for a special issue entitled "Leaping into the Fire: Representations of Women in U. S. Race Riots," of the journal SLI: Studies in the Literary Imagination. Her essays have appeared in American Literature, African American Review, ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, and LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory. She has authored numerous encyclopedia articles on topics from Uncle Tom's Cabin, to racial passing, to the works of Toni Morrison. Her current project is a monograph exploring sexual reproduction in twentieth-century feminist utopias and dystopias.