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Department of English
Megan A. Norcia
Department of English
Office: Hartwell 201A
Phone: (585) 395-5566
Email: mnorcia@brockport.edu
Education:
Ph.D. University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 2004
M.A. University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 2000
B.A. Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, 1998
Awards and Honors:
Council on Library and Information Resources Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Lehigh University (2004-2005)
Kirkland Fellowship Recipient (Master’s: 1998-2000, Dissertation: 2002-2003)
Kirkland Travel Grant (2002-2003) for research in Britain
Teaching Awards: University of Florida and SUNY Brockport
Publications:
“The Imperial Food Chain: Eating as an Interface of Power in Women Writers’ Geography Primers.” in Victorian Literature and Culture (Spring 2005)
“Playing Empire: Children’s Parlour Games, Home Theatricals, and Improvisational Play.” in Children's Literature Quarterly (January 2005)
“Angel of the Island: L.T. Meade’s New Girl as Heir of a Nation-Making Robinson Crusoe.” in The Lion and the Unicorn (September 2004)
“The Adventure of Geography: Women Writers Un-Map and Re-Map Imperialism” in Victorian Newsletter (Spring 2003)
“The Boys’ Book” and “Lord of the Flies” entries in Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinity, Ed. Michael S. Kimmel. ABC-CLIO publishers (forthcoming)
“Adventure” and “Geography” entries in Encyclopedia of American Children’s Literature, Ed. Connie Ann Kirk (forthcoming)
Digital Projects:
Worked closely at Lehigh University with Special Collections, Digital Projects Team and interdisciplinary faculty to make rare materials and manuscripts accessible for teaching, research, and learning
“I remain,” A Digital Archive of Letters, Manuscripts, and Ephemera (http://digital.lib.lehigh.edu/remain/) (Lehigh University, 2004-2005)
Assisted with materials selection, writing, research, classroom applications
The Vault at Pfaff’s: An Archive of Art and Literature by New York City’s Nineteenth-Century Bohemians (http://digital.lib.lehigh.edu/pfaffs/) (Lehigh University, 2004-2005)
Assisted with materials selection, database organization, and research
Courses Taught:
Children’s Literature: the Sampler
Young Adult Literatur
