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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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Matthew J.C. Cella

Assistant Professor of English

Office: Horton Hall 331
Phone:  477.1546
Email: mjcella@ship.edu
 
 M Cella
 

Education/Degrees: 

Bachelor of Arts (1996), University of Rochester

MA (1999), University of Connecticut

PhD (2007), University of Connecticut


 

Research/Teaching Interests:

 American Literature, Literary Ecology, and Disability Studies.

Selected Publications: 

Bad Land Pastoralism in Great Plains Fiction (U of Iowa, 2010)

"The Ecosomatic Paradigm in Literature: Merging Disability Studies and Ecocriticism" (Forthcoming, ISLE)

"The Mythology of the Buffalo Commons in Proulx's That Old Ace in the Hole and King's Truth & Bright Water." (Western American Literature 41.4 [2007]: 419-44.)

"The Ambivalent Heritage of Mining in Western American Literature: Wheeler's Deadwood Dick Novels and Mary Austin's The Land of Little Rain." (ISLE 16 [2009]: 761-78).