Michaelann Nelson
Dr. Michaelann Nelson (2011)
Assistant Professor of English
nelsonmi@bethelu.edu
Phone: 731-352-4015
Office: Room 112, Dickey Fine Arts Building
Assistant Professor of English
nelsonmi@bethelu.edu
Phone: 731-352-4015
Office: Room 112, Dickey Fine Arts Building
EDUCATION
B.A., Weber State University
M.A., Northern Arizona University
Ph.D., University of New Mexico
LITERARY INTERESTS
M.A., Northern Arizona University
Ph.D., University of New Mexico
LITERARY INTERESTS
Southwest Literature, Environmental Literature and Ecocriticism, Literary Nonfiction, American Modernism, Multi-ethnic Literature, Composition
COURSES
ENG 010-Writing Basics
ENG 101-Expository Writing
ENG 111-Writing About Literature
ENG 312-American Literature II
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
“Pete Seeger”, “Tina Turner”, “John Mayer”, Queen Latifah”. Music in American Life: An Encyclopedia of the Songs, Styles, Stars, and Stories that Shaped Our Culture. Ed. Jacqueline Edmondson. Forthcoming 2012.
“’Love the Land or Leave It Alone’: Edward Abbey and the Myth of Glen Canyon” presented at Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, Victoria, BC, June 2009
“’In Wildness is [Not] the Preservation of the World’: The Misappropriation of Thoreau by the Wilderness Movement” presented at Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, Spartanburg, SC, June 2007
“The Idealism of Farming and the Collapse of the American Dream in The Grapes of Wrath” presented at Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, Eugene, OR, June 2005