Dr. Robin Cadwallader

Education

• Ph.D. and M.A., English (Literature) - Indiana University of Pennsylvania
• B.A., English (Secondary Education concentration/certification) - Saint Francis University

Biography

I was a non-traditional undergraduate student who worked full time--sometimes multiple jobs--while pursuing my bachelor's degree and raising a family. Today, I enjoy teaching non-traditional and traditional students, as well as researching, writing, and editing. I have published on women authors and nineteenth-century culture, an edited edition of a religious autobiography written by a local woman in the nineteenth century, and an anthology of Civil War era stories by Rebecca Harding Davis. I am currently working on a book about the positive effects of gossip in American literature and an edition of Rebecca Harding Davis's business letters.

Academic & Professional Specializations

• nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American women writers
• literature and culture
• scholarly writing and editing

Teaching Interests

• women's literature
• charity and benevolence in literature
• religion in literature
• social justice issues in literature
• working-class literature
• children's/young adult literature
• literary theory
• scholarly writing