Dr. Wanda Creaser wcreaser@tamiu.edu
Assistant Professor
Emphasis
English

Phone: (956) 326-2660

Office: PH 216E

Teaching: Technical Writing, Non-fiction Prose Writing, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature

Research: Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish Literature and Politics, Literature and Medicine, Memory Theory, Writing and Community Service

Education: Ph.D., Arizona State University

Publications

Scholarly Article:

“‘The most mortifying malady’: Jonathan Swift’s Dizzying World and Dublin’s Mentally Ill,” Swift Studies, 2004.

Scholarly Article in Progress:

“Conflagration or Loss of Memory?: Collective Memory in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Last September.”

Recent Book Review:

Baltes, Sabine. The Pamphlet Controversy about Wood’s Halfpence (1722-25) and the Tradition of Irish Constitutional Nationalism. East-Central Intelligencer, Spring 2004.

Representative Conference Presentations:

“Exercising the Body, Exercising the Pen: Jonathan Swift ‘Trot[s] on Tolerably,’” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), Las Vegas, March-April 2005

“‘A subtil Piece of Malice’: English Policy and Anglo-Irish Posturing in Swift’s Ireland,” Midwest/American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (MW/ASECS), Chicago, November 2003

“‘Act in a National Way’: Behind the Scenes of Anglo-Irish Resistance in the Early Eighteenth Century,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), New Orleans, April 2001

"Reweaving the Life of the Wife: Marriage in Thomas Deloney's ‘Middle-Class’ Philosophy," Modern Language Association (MLA), Chicago, December 1995