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Christiana Salah is an assistant professor of English and an affiliated professor of Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies. She has taught at 换妻社区 since 2017, except for a year away as a visiting professor at Kenyon College. She teaches literature courses primarily focused on British writers of the 19th and 20th centuries, and general education courses on topics like disability, gender, marriage and obsession, as well as introductory courses in both academic writing and women鈥檚 and gender studies.

Areas of Expertise

• Victorian literature
• Jane Austen
• Gender studies, esp. social roles of women
• Film, television and digital adaptations of literary texts
• Children鈥檚 and young adult literature (19th C. to present)
• Disability studies, esp. historical understandings of disability or illness

Education

• Ph.D., English, University of Connecticut, 2016
• M.A., English, University of Connecticut, 2010
• M.F.A., creative writing (fiction), Emerson College, 2005
• B.A., English and creative writing, Colby College, 2003

Honors and Awards

• Humanities Institute Fellowship, University of Connecticut, 2015-16
• Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University of Connecticut, August 2013.
• Outstanding Predoc Award, University of Connecticut, 2008-2011.

Selected Publications

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• 鈥�Mary Barton as Detective Fiction: Class Struggle and the Female Sleuth,鈥� Victorians Institute Journal, vol. 47, no. 1, 2020
• 鈥淩eimagining Revolution: Later Lives of the Narrative of Joseph Plumb Martin in Children鈥檚 Literature,鈥� Children鈥檚 Literature 43, 2015
• 鈥淕irls in Bonds: Prehensile Place and the Domestic Gothic in L.M. Montgomery鈥檚 Short Fiction,鈥� Tulsa Studies in Women鈥檚 Literature 32.1, spring 2013
• 鈥溾�楾his picture always haunted me鈥�: Dramatic Adaptations of The Woman in White,鈥� 3.2, 2010

Book Chapters

• 鈥淎 Ministry of Plum Puffs: Cooking as a Path to Spiritual Maturity in L. M. Montgomery's 鈥楢nne鈥� Books,鈥� 100 Years of Anne with an 鈥楨鈥�: The Centennial Study of Anne of Green Gables, ed. Holly Blackford, University of Calgary Press, 2009

Public Scholarship

• 鈥淭he Book Trailer and the Imagination: Selling Children鈥檚 Fantasy Fiction on YouTube,鈥� Inis Magazine 10 May 2011

Outside the College

In her spare time, Dr. Salah can often be found exploring the outdoors with her family, challenging herself to new baking exploits, consuming nerdy media, worshipping at St. Francis de Sales church, reading an endless stream of mystery novels or working on her own creative writing.