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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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Michael W. Bibby

Professor of English

Office: Wright 330
Phone:  717.477.1723
Email: mwbibb@ship.edu
Web Page
Bibby

Education/Degrees:
B.A., Ohio State University (1979);
M.A., Creative Writing and Poetry, University of Minnesota (1990);
Ph.D., Concentration--20th century American poetry and Theory, University of Minnesota (1993).

 
Research/Teaching Interests:
Post-1900 American poetry; Vietnam-era poetry; poetry and political activism; literary and cultural theory; American literature; African American poetry; subcultural studies

Selected Publications:
Books
Hearts and Minds: Bodies, Poetry, and Resistance in the Vietnam Era (Rutgers UP, 1996).
Worrying the Line: African-American Poetry and the Racial Uncanny, 1945-1955 (UP Mississippi, under contract).
Ed., The Vietnam War and Postmodernity (U Massachusetts P, 2000)
Ed. with Lauren Goodlad, Goth: Undead Subculture (Duke UP, forthcoming).


Chapters & Articles
"What is ‘innovative’ after 9-11-01?: Reflections from the MSA 01 Conference,” In-Conference, ed. Elizabeth Frost and Linda Kinnahan, How2: Contemporary Innovative Writing by Women 1.7 (Spring 2002).


"Insurgent Poetry and the Ideology of the Poetic," in Poetics/Politics, ed. Amitava Kumar (St. Martin's Press, 1999), 135-54.


"Fragging the Chains of Command: GI Resistance Poetry and Mutilation," The Journal of American Culture 16 (Fall 1993): 29-38.


"'Where is Vietnam?': Antiwar Poetry and the Canon," College English 55 (Feb. 1993): 158-178.