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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Professor of EnglishOffice: Horton Hall 305Phone: 477.1506Email: kvalke@ship.eduWeb Page
Education/Degrees: PhD in English, concentration in Composition and Rhetoric, University of Wisconsin -Milwaukee, 1997.
Creative Nonfiction Publications: “Resting Place.” Alaska Quarterly Review. Spring/Summer 2009. http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/aqr/26_1and2.cfm
“Severance Pay.” CutBank. July 2008. http://www.cutbankonline.org/photos/cutbank_69/69-cover.html
“Hitching.” The Rambler. January/February 2008. http://www.ramblermagazine.com/issue_jan08.html
“Spinster Punk.” So To Speak. Winter/Spring 2008. http://www.gmu.edu/org/sts/issues.php
"Forgotten Fathers: A Memoir.” Proteus: A Journal of Ideas. Fall 2002.
Academic Publications: “Orphans Together: A History of New York’s Hebrew Orphan Asylum.” Proceedings of the 2006 Biennial Scholars’ Conference on American Jewish History. 2006. http://www.cofc.edu/~jwst/pages/biennialpapers060906.htm “The Pedagogy of Pleading: Research Grant Proposals as a Creative Nonfiction Assignment.” Pedagogy Papers 2006. Associated Writing Programs, 2006: 209.
"Writing Program Administrators Stopping and Starting Over." With co-authors Keith Rhodes, Ruth Mirtz and Susan Taylor. WPA: Journal of the Council of Writing Program Administrators 25.3 (Spring 2002): 79-96. http://wpacouncil.org/archives/25n3/25n3mirtz.pdf
"The Triangle of Organized Labor, Writing Instruction, and Education Technology." Workplace: The Journal for Academic Labor, June 2001. Available http://louisville.edu/journal/workplace/issue7/vanalkemade.html
"Questioning the Humanist Vision of Computer Technology." ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication Skills. Indiana University: Bloomington, Indiana, 1996. http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/16/4b/92.pdf