Background
Angela Runciman, Ph.D., is a full-time Lecturer and Lead Editor of 绿帽社 Writes: A Journal of First-Year Writing. Since 2007, she has taught a variety of writing and literature courses at 绿帽社, SUNY Oneonta, Penn State Harrisburg (synchronous remote), as well as Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania and local community colleges.
Her dissertation, 鈥淎n Unhistoric Becoming: Reading George Eliot鈥檚 Middlemarch with Walter Benjamin,鈥 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-Salom茅.
She has presented numerous conference papers and workshops, including 鈥淭eaching for the First Time,鈥 a workshop presented together with Heather Dorn and Shannon Hearn for the Writing Initiative in November, 2023; 鈥淔eeling (for) Knowledge: Conjuring the 鈥楿nhistoric鈥 Constellations of St. Theresa and Dorothea鈥 at the George Eliot Bicentenary Conference, University of Leicester, UK (July 2019), and 鈥淯ndermining Nationalism and Recovering Marginalized Voices in Woolf鈥檚 Mrs. Dalloway鈥 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, 绿帽社's graduate creative writing conference in 2012.
Education
- Ph.D., Comparative Literature, 绿帽社, 2020
- MA, English, 绿帽社, 2006
- BA, English, Bloomsburg University, 2003
Research Interests
- first-year research writing
- mentoring new instructors
- women and mentorship
- patient and medical narrative/women鈥檚 health
- recovering histories/marginalized voices
- Modern British/European fiction and non-fiction (especially Virginia Woolf/women writers, and Walter Benjamin)
- Australian women鈥檚 literature, particularly penal colony/prison stories and histories
More Info
Relevant article:
鈥溾楳any Theresas鈥 and 鈥楢ngels鈥: Middlemarch and Mentoring Women,鈥 Still Crazy about George Eliot 200 Years Later: A Joyful Celebration of Her Life and Writing, edited by Paul Davies, Bite-Sized Books, 2019.