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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Dawn Vernooy

Associate Professor of English 

Office: Wright 336
Phone:  477.1243
Email:dmvern@ship.edu
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Education/Degrees:

Ph.D., University of Nebraska (2003)
M.A., University of Nebraska (1997)
B.A., New Mexico State University (1996)

Research/Teaching Interests:
Bristish Romantic Period poetry and prose
Nineteenth-Century British Cultural Studies
Women's Literature
Gender Studies

Selected Publications: 

Books:

Editor and Introduction.  Vancenza and The Widow: Volume 2 of The Works of Mary Robinson.  Pickering Masters Series. Pickering and Chatto, 2009.

Journal Articles:

"'Orgies of Nameless Horrors': Gender, Orientalism, and the Queering of Violence in Richard Marsh's The Beetle."  Co-authored with W. C. Harris.  Papers on Language and Literature 48.4 (2012): 339-381.

“Teaching Mary Darby Robinson's Suggested Reading List: Romanticism, Recovery Work, and Reading Beyond Anthologies.” Pedagogy 9.1 (2008).

In Progress:

Reading the Intersections of High Art and Popular Culture in Mary Robinson's Poetry and Prose 

“Vauxhall Gardens and Late Eighteen-Century Pastoral: Living the Good Life in a Consumer-Driven Culture”

“Scanning the ‘various degrees of ornament': Mary Robinson, Poetry, and the Romantic Novel”