Current Happenings 

Dr. Matthew Cella will give a presentation on Thursday, 11 April at 3:30 in DHC 051. The title of his talk is "You Don't Have to Hike the Trails to Care About the Forest: Disability Narratives and the Environment."

The talk examines how autobiographical narratives by people with disabilities challenge normative (even ableist) constructions of the body-environment relationship. The study of these disability narratives therefore provides an opportunity to develop a richer and more inclusive ecological criticism.

Matthew J.C. Cella is an assistant professor in the English department at Shippensburg University. He has published articles and reviews in a variety of journals, including Western American Literature, MELUS, and ISLE. His book, Bad Land Pastoralism in Great Plains Fiction, was a finalist for the Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize in 2011.
 

 

 

 


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Contact Information

Dauphin Humanities Center, 128
Shippensburg University
1871 Old Main Drive
Shippensburg, PA  17257
Phone: 717. 477.1495
Fax: 717.477.4025

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Laurie JC Cella

Assistant Professor of English

Director of Composition

Office: DHC 005
Phone:  477.1204
Email:ljcella@ship.edu 

Education/Degrees: 

BA, SUNY Geneseo, 1996

PhD, University of Connecticut, 2007  

 

Cella 

Research/Teaching Interests:

I teach a wide variety of classes: Composition (WIFYS), Women's Literature, American Literature, and Technical/Professional Writing.  Most of my writing classes have a service-learning focus.  As Composition Director, I oversee the Composition program, and mentor the English department's AmeriCorps Vista, Jayda Coons.  Jayda keeps a blog describing her experiences coordinating service-learning opportunities as the English dept Community Fellow: http://fclcvista.blogspot.com.

 

Selected Publications:

  Book 

 I am currently co-editing a book with Jessica Restaino titled Unsustainable: Owning Our Best, Short-Lived Efforts at Community Writing Work, under contract with Lexington Press.  This collection focuses on issues of sustainability in the field of service-learning and features essays by Ellen Cushman, Paula Mathieu, Tom Deans, Eleanor Long, and Mike Donnelly, with an afterward by Eli Goldblatt. 

 Articles  

"Demeter on Strike: Fierce Motherhood on the Picket Line and the Playground." Being and Thinking as an Academic Mother: Theory and Practice.  Editors Andrea O'Reilly and Lynn Hallstein.  Association for Research on Mothering.  York University, Toronto, Canada.  Forthcoming, Spring 2012.

"Oral Histories as Community Outreach: Toward a Deeper Understanding of the Rural Public Sphere." Circulating Communities: The Tactics and Strategies of Community Publishing. Eds. Paula Mathieu, Steve Parks, and Tiffany Rousculp.  Lanham, MD: Lexington Press. 2011. http://www.amazon.com/Circulating-Communities-Strategies-Community-Publishing/dp/0739167103/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1326290322&sr=8-1 

 "Re-assessing Sustainability: Leveraging Marginal Power for Service-Learning Programs."  Reflections: A Journal of Writing, Community Literacy, and Service-Learning. Fall 2010. http://reflectionsjournal.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Re-assessing-Sustainability.pdf

“Radical Romance in the Piedmont: Olive Tilford Dargan’s Gastonia Novels.”  Southern Literary Journal. Spring 2007. 39:2. 37-57.

“Narrative ‘Confidence Games’: Framing the Blonde Spectacle in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1925) and Nights of the Circus (1984).” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Winter 2005. 47-62.    

 Editorial Experience  

Co-editor, Proteus: A Journal of Ideas. http://www.ship.edu/proteus/ 

Assistant Editor, Twentieth Century American Drama: Critical Concepts and Cultural Studies. Oxford: Routledge, 2006.

 Book Reviews  

Sheridan-Rabideau, Mary P.  Girls, Feminism, and Grassroots Literacies. Albany: State University of New York Press. 2008.  Forthcoming in Reflections: A Journal of Writing, Service-Learning, and Community Literacy.  Fall/Winter 2008.

Ben Rafoth, ed.  A Tutor’s Guide: Helping Writers One to One. Portsmouth, NH: Hienmann. 2005. Writing Lab Newsletter. April 2006. 12.

Ben Rafoth & Shanti Bruce, eds. ESL Writers: A Guide for Writing Center Tutors. Portsmouth, NH: Heinmann. 2004. Writing Lab Newsletter. June 2004. 8-9.

Nancy McCabe, Meeting Sophie: A Memoir of Adoption. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 2003.  In Multicultural Review. 2004. 66-67.