Background
Angela Runciman, Ph.D., is a full-time Lecturer and Lead Editor of °®¶¹´«Ã½ Writes: A Journal of First-Year Writing. Since 2007, she has taught a variety of writing and literature courses at °®¶¹´«Ã½, SUNY Oneonta, Penn State Harrisburg (synchronous remote), as well as Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania and local community colleges.
Her dissertation, “An Unhistoric Becoming: Reading George Eliot’s Middlemarch with Walter Benjamin,†focuses on protagonist Dorothea Brooke's function as the recognition of tragedy and recovery of women's history in Middlemarch, bringing Eliot into context with the work of Modern women writers such as Virginia Woolf and Lou Andreas-Salomé.
She has presented numerous conference papers and workshops, including “Teaching for the First Time,†a workshop presented together with Heather Dorn and Shannon Hearn for the Writing Initiative in November, 2023; “Feeling (for) Knowledge: Conjuring the ‘Unhistoric’ Constellations of St. Theresa and Dorothea†at the George Eliot Bicentenary Conference, University of Leicester, UK (July 2019), and “Undermining Nationalism and Recovering Marginalized Voices in Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway†at the 29th International Conference on Virginia Woolf, Mount St. Joseph University, Cincinnati, OH (June 2019). She also presented a medical narrative, "Crohn's Semicolons: Life Re/Sections," at Writing by Degrees, °®¶¹´«Ã½'s graduate creative writing conference in 2012.
Education
- Ph.D., Comparative Literature, °®¶¹´«Ã½, 2020
- MA, English, °®¶¹´«Ã½, 2006
- BA, English, Bloomsburg University, 2003
Research Interests
- first-year research writing
- mentoring new instructors
- women and mentorship
- patient and medical narrative/women’s health
- recovering histories/marginalized voices
- Modern British/European fiction and non-fiction (especially Virginia Woolf/women writers, and Walter Benjamin)
- Australian women’s literature, particularly penal colony/prison stories and histories
More Info
Relevant article:
“‘Many Theresas’ and ‘Angels’: Middlemarch and Mentoring Women,†Still Crazy about George Eliot 200 Years Later: A Joyful Celebration of Her Life and Writing, edited by Paul Davies, Bite-Sized Books, 2019.