Dr. Linda Kornasky

Professor Natalie Zan Ryan Department of English and Modern Languages

Email: linda.kornasky@angelo.edu
Phone: 325-486-6149
Office: Academic Building 001A

Experience

“Virginia and Economics.” Forthcoming in Ellen Glasgow Journal of Southern Women Writers. 2014 issue (18 pages typescript).

“Edith Wharton’s The Glimpses of the Moon meets Geoffrey Miller’s Spent.” Edith Wharton Review. 29.1 (Spring 2013): 11-20.

“‘To Go into Partnership’: Gender, Class, Ethnicity, and the American Dream in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth.” Critical Insights: The American Dream. Ed. Keith Newlin. Ipswich, MA: Salem P, 2013. 18-35.

“The Glimpses of the Moon meets Geoffrey Miller’s Spent.” Edith Wharton Review. 29.1 (Spring 2013): 11-20. Print.

“An Interview with Leslie Marmon Silko.” Concho River Review. 26.2 (Fall 2012): 50-68.

“Polka Settles the Score in The Schmenges: The Last Polka.” Too Bold for the Box Office: The Mockumentary from Big Screen to Small. Ed. Cynthia J. Miller. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2012. 53-72. Print.

“‘Discovery of a Treasury:’ Orrick Johns and the Influence of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening on Edith Summers Kelley’s Weeds.” Studies in American Naturalism. 6. 2 (Winter 2011): 197-215. Print.

“Disabling Modernism: Ellen Glasgow’s In This Our Life.” Ellen Glasgow Journal of Southern Women Writers. 4 (2011): 73-100. Print.

“Writer Spiegelman No Stranger to Controversy.” San Angelo Standard-Times. February 18, 2011. Web and print.

“American Literary Naturalism and Sexuality.” The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Naturalism. Ed. Keith Newlin. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2011. 241-256. Print.

“A Call to Professors.” Diversity and Democracy: Civic Learning for Shared Futures. 12. 2 (Spring 2010): 20. Web and print.

“Identity Politics and Invisible Disability in the Classroom.” InsideHigherEd.com. 17 March, 2009. Web.

“‘The Right Kind Polish Stick to the Country:’ Ecocentrism, Ethnicity, and Gender in Gladys Hasty Carroll’s As the Earth Turns.” Maine’s Place in the Environmental Imagination. Ed. Michael D. Burke. London: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009. 89-104. Print.

“Becoming Texas: The Fusion of Regional Identities in San Angelo’s Popular Culture.” Popular Culture Review. 19. 2 (Summer 2008): 89-99. Print.

“Teaching American Women Naturalists.” ALN (American Literary Naturalism). 2. 2 (Spring 2008): 8-15. Print.

“The Invisible Stigma in Ellen Glasgow’s The Descendant.” Regarding Ellen Glasgow: Essays for Contemporary Readers. Ed. Welford Dunaway Taylor and George Longest.
Richmond: Library of Virginia, 2001. 85-94. Print.

“Sexuality and the Death of the Southern Woman Artist.” The Ellen Glasgow Newsletter. 41 (Fall 1998): 1, 3-4. Print.

“On ‘Listen[ing] to Spectres, too:’ Wharton’s Bunner Sisters and Ideologies of Sexual Selection.” American Literary Realism, 1870-1910. 30. 1 (Fall 1997): 47-58. Print.

“Ellen Glasgow’s Disability.” Mississippi Quarterly: The Journal of Southern Culture. 49. 2 (Spring 1996): 281-293. Print.

Responsibilities:

Chair, Angelo State University Gender Studies Committee
Curator, English and Modern Languages Faculty Peer-Reviewed Publication Exhibit

Presentations:

“Katherine Anne Porter’s Noon Wine and American Literary Naturalism by Women Writers.” American Literature Association Conference, Washington D.C., May 2014.
“Virginia and Economics: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Ellen Glasgow on Conventional Motherhood.” American Literature Association Conference, Boston, May, 2013.
“Edith Wharton’s The Glimpses of the Moon meets Geoffrey Miller’s Spent.” American Literature Association Conference, San Francisco, May, 2012.
“The Influence of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening on Edith Summers Kelley’s Weeds: Biographical Connections?” American Literature Association Conference, Boston, May, 2011.
“Debating Darwinian Sexual Selection in Late Nineteenth Century America.” Texas Tech University Annual Gender Studies Conference, Lubbock, February, 2011.
“Creating an Advanced Course in Gender Studies.” The National Council of Teachers of English Convention, Philadelphia, November, 2009.
“Texas Digital Library and Journal of Texas Women Writers: A Perfect Match,” Keynote Address for Open Access Week, Baylor University, Waco, TX, October 20, 2009.
“‘Ways of Seeing’ Gay and Lesbian Student Groups at Texas State Universities.” Poster Presentation. Texas Tech University Annual Women’s Studies Conference, April, 2009.
“Polka Settles the Score in The Schmenges: The Last Polka.” Far West American Popular Culture Association, Las Vegas, Nevada, March, 2009.
“The Descent of the Southern Lady: Naturalism in Ellen Glasgow’s Virginia.” MLA, Chicago, December, 2007.
“Opposites Attract: Regionalism and Naturalism in Edith Summers Kelley’s Weeds and Dorothy Scarborough’s The Wind.” ALA Symposium on Naturalism, Newport Beach, CA, October, 2007.
“Darwinian Lovers: Connie’s Dilemma in Adrien Lyne’s Unfaithful.” Popular Culture Association, Boston, April, 2007.
“Jim’s Deaf Daughter and the ‘Deef and Dumb’ Duke: Silence, Disability, and the Landscape of Slavery in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” SCMLA, Dallas, October, 2006.
“The ‘Indissoluble Matrimony’ of Darwinism and Feminism.” Second International Rebecca West Society Conference, New York, September, 2005.
“Southern Moonshiners and Tidewater Ladies: Naturalism in Majorie Kinnan Rawlings’s South Moon Under and Ellen Glasgow’s The Sheltered Life,” Majorie Kinnan Rawlings Society Conference, Crystal River, FL, March 30-April 2, 2005.
“On the Margins of Two Borders: A Popular Culture Reading of San Angelo, Texas,” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, San Antonio, April, 2004.
“Genre, Gender, and Region in Dorothy Scarborough’s 1925 West Texas Novel, The Wind,” Western Literature Association Conference, Tucson, October 2002.

Dr. Linda Kornasky

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