Dr. Donna Gessell

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.