Dr. Christiana Salah
Associate Professor of EnglishChristiana Salah is an assistant professor of English and an affiliated professor of Women亚洲色吧檚 and Gender Studies. She has taught at Hope College 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亚洲色吧檚 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亚洲色吧檚 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
- 亚洲色吧Mary Barton as Detective Fiction: Class Struggle and the Female Sleuth,亚洲色吧 Victorians Institute Journal, vol. 47, no. 1, 2020
- 亚洲色吧淩eimagining Revolution: Later Lives of the Narrative of Joseph Plumb Martin in Children亚洲色吧檚 Literature,亚洲色吧 Children亚洲色吧檚 Literature 43, 2015
- 亚洲色吧淕irls in Bonds: Prehensile Place and the Domestic Gothic in L.M. Montgomery亚洲色吧檚 Short Fiction,亚洲色吧 Tulsa Studies in Women亚洲色吧檚 Literature 32.1, spring 2013
- 亚洲色吧溠侵奚蓸This picture always haunted me亚洲色吧: Dramatic Adaptations of The Woman in White,亚洲色吧 3.2, 2010
Book Chapters
- 亚洲色吧淎 Ministry of Plum Puffs: Cooking as a Path to Spiritual Maturity in L. M. Montgomery's 亚洲色吧楢nne亚洲色吧 Books,亚洲色吧 100 Years of Anne with an 亚洲色吧楨亚洲色吧: The Centennial Study of Anne of Green Gables, ed. Holly Blackford, University of Calgary Press, 2009
Public Scholarship
- 亚洲色吧淭he Book Trailer and the Imagination: Selling Children亚洲色吧檚 Fantasy Fiction on YouTube,亚洲色吧 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.
616.395.7610
salah@hope.eduLubbers Hall 301 126 East 10th Street Holland, MI 49423