Matthew J.C. Cella 

Office: Horton Hall 331
Phone: (717) 477-1546
Email: mjcella@ship.edu

Education: 

Bachelor of Arts (1996), University of Rochester

MA (1999), University of Connecticut

PhD (2007), University of Connecticut

Teaching Interests: 

• American Literature
• Literary Ecology
• Disability Studies

Undergraduate Courses Taught: 

Current Projects:

Featured 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).