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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.
 

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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Bio in a Nutshell:  Upon graduating from Penn State with a degree in Advertising, I got fired from my first job after six weeks. I cut lawns, worked in a comic book shop, at a mall bookstore, and finally with a typesetter.  Later I talked my way into a creative writing graduate school, where I learned a great deal, mostly what I didn't understand about writing.  I also found I really enjoyed teaching, which I've done now for about twenty years.  Just before making a new home at Ship, I directed the MFA program at McNeese State University.  

Novels: 

The Midlife Crisis of Commander Invincible! (LSU Press, Fall 2013)

The Miracle Stealer (Arthur A. Levine, 2010)

Buddy Cooper Finds a Way (Simon and  Schuster, 2004)

St. Michael's Scales (Arthur A. Levine, 2002)

Links:  

 http://neilconnelly.com/ 

"The Dad in Question"                                                                             http://gulfstreamlitmag.wordpress.com/current-issue/fiction/the-dad-in-question/ 

"Dear Literary Agent"                                       http://www.literarysalt.com/issue3.2003/fiction_nc_literaryagent.html