Dr. Donna Gessell

Phone: 706-864-1528
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Office: Dunlap Hall, 206B, Dahlonega
Areas of Expertise: ): Eighteenth C. British, Milton, and Contemporary Literature; English Linguistics; English Pedagogy
Courses Taught
- English Composition
- Standard English Grammar
- World Literature Survey
- British Literature Survey
- Milton
- English Literature of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century
- The Fiction of Jane Austen
- The Novel
- Plague Literature
- Literary Criticism
- Visions of Peace in East and West
- Literature of Australia and New Zealand
Education
- Ph. D., English, Case Western Reserve University, 1995
- M.A., English, Case Western Reserve University, 1989
- B.A., Honors in the Liberal Arts, Comparative Literature, The Ohio State University, 1976
- B.S., English Education, The Ohio State University, 1976
Publications
“Peace Pedagogy from the Borderlines” Chapter. Routledge Handbook of Pacifism and Nonviolence; Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy. Co-authored with Drs. Renée Bricker, Yi Deng, and Michael Proulx. (2018).
“Never Ceasing to Be Ourselves”” A Review of Kat Meads’ In This Season of Rage and Melancholy Such Irrevocable Acts as These. Norman: Mongrel Empire Press, 2016. North Carolina Literary Review, (Forthcoming).
“Judith Ortiz Cofer and the Ecology of Creating Identity.” South Atlantic Review. Journal of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 82:3, (2017). 27-45.
“Civilization: Rereading Austen’s Constructed Utopia,” Nighthawks Open Institutional Repository. University of North Georgia. Web. <http://digitalcommons.northgeorgia.edu/alconf/2014/2014/3/>.
“What’s in Your Writing Tacklebox?” Contribute a Verse: A Guide to First Year Composition, ed. Tanya Long Bennett. Dahlonega: UPNG, (2015). 44-54.
“Beyond Magical Realism: Teaching Creative Thinking Using Gabriel García Márquez’s ‘The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World,’” Eureka Studies in Short Fiction. Eastern Kentucky University, 11/12 (2015). 84-94.
“Insomnia Well Spent”: A review of Kat Meads’ 2:12 a.m.: Essays. Nacogdoches: Stephen F. Austin Sate UP, 2013. North Carolina Literary Review, 24 (2015). 44-45.
“Reading Flannery O'Connor with Buddha Eyes: Constructing Grace.” Eureka Studies in Short Fiction. Eastern Kentucky University, 10 (2011). 54-63.