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Debra Ripley received her B.A. in Writing Intensive English from Marquette University, an M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, an M.A. in Literature from Marquette University, and her Ph.D. in Literature from Marquette University.  Her research interests concern cognition and narrative as a process of problem-finding and problem-solving. 

She is the Chair of Sciences and Art History as well as teaching writing, literature, and humanities at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design.  Outside of school she is working on the completion of two novels.

In 2007 Debra presented “A Cognitive Approach to Reading, Writing, and the Humanities: Learning Habits and Quality of Life Issues” at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities.  The year before, she presented “Guilt, Pleasure, and Guilty Pleasures: The (Social) Limits of (Fictional) Female Sexuality” for the 2006 Marquette University Women’s Studies Conference.

Her interest in cognition and the arts stems from a commitment to exploring the contributions of the arts to both tangible and intangible quality of life issues.