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Melora G. Vandersluis, Ph.D
Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Professor, Department of English
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Profile
Melora G. Vandersluis, Ph.D., serves as associate dean for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and professor of English. She has spoken and consulted at various institutions across the United States and Canada and has taught a variety of courses in British, world, and classical literature. Her book Personal and Political Transformation in the Texts of Jane Austen traces Jane Austen’s response to the French Revolution, using the tropes of masks, mirrors, and mirages.
Education
Ph.D. - Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2000
M.A.T. - University of Iowa, 1992
B.A. - University of New Mexico, 1989
Credentials/Certifications
Secondary teaching credential, English, 1992
M.A.T. - University of Iowa, 1992
B.A. - University of New Mexico, 1989
Credentials/Certifications
Secondary teaching credential, English, 1992
Professional/Scholarly Presentations
Presentations
Vandersluis, Melora. "Matching Needs with Expertise," panel presenter at the Campus-Based Faculty Development Project Conference, Boston, 2002
Vandersluis, Melora. "Entering the Conversation: Research and Discussion Possibilities Beyond the Classroom," keynote speaker, Distinguished Scholars Banquet, Azusa Pacific University, 2006
Vandersluis, Melora. "All Shall Be Well in the Best of All Possible Worlds: Voltaire's Candide," paper presented at the CCL Western Regional Conference, Pepperdine University, Malibu, 2006
Vandersluis, Melora. Address to the Journalism/Communication Arts Department, Regent University, Virginia Beach, 2004
Vandersluis, Melora. Address to full faculty—Atlantic Baptist University, Moncton, New Brunswick, 2005
Publications
Vandersluis, Melora. "Narrative in the Professional Age: Transatlantic Readings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, by Jennifer Cognard-Black. New York: Routledge, 2004, and George Eliot US: Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Perspectives, by Monika Mueller. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2005." Book review to be printed in George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies, September 2007.
Vandersluis, Melora. Personal and Political Transformation in the Texts of Jane Austen. Lewiston: Edwin-Mellen Press, 2003.
Vandersluis, Melora. "How Does Your Garden Grow? Plants, Gardens, and Doctrines in George Eliot's Silas Marner." George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies, September 2005.
Vandersluis, Melora. "Fate, Faith, and Freewill: Voltaire's Candide and Pascal's Pensées." In Sublimer Aspects: Interfaces Between Literature, Aesthetics, and Theology, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007.
Vandersluis, Melora. "Angelic Airs, Subversive Songs: Music as Social Discourse in the Victorian Novel, by Alisa Clapp-Itnyre. Athens: Ohio UP, 2002." Book review printed in George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies, September 2005.
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Vandersluis, Melora. "Matching Needs with Expertise," panel presenter at the Campus-Based Faculty Development Project Conference, Boston, 2002
Vandersluis, Melora. "Entering the Conversation: Research and Discussion Possibilities Beyond the Classroom," keynote speaker, Distinguished Scholars Banquet, Azusa Pacific University, 2006
Vandersluis, Melora. "All Shall Be Well in the Best of All Possible Worlds: Voltaire's Candide," paper presented at the CCL Western Regional Conference, Pepperdine University, Malibu, 2006
Vandersluis, Melora. Address to the Journalism/Communication Arts Department, Regent University, Virginia Beach, 2004
Vandersluis, Melora. Address to full faculty—Atlantic Baptist University, Moncton, New Brunswick, 2005
Publications
Vandersluis, Melora. "Narrative in the Professional Age: Transatlantic Readings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, by Jennifer Cognard-Black. New York: Routledge, 2004, and George Eliot US: Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Perspectives, by Monika Mueller. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2005." Book review to be printed in George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies, September 2007.
Vandersluis, Melora. Personal and Political Transformation in the Texts of Jane Austen. Lewiston: Edwin-Mellen Press, 2003.
Vandersluis, Melora. "How Does Your Garden Grow? Plants, Gardens, and Doctrines in George Eliot's Silas Marner." George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies, September 2005.
Vandersluis, Melora. "Fate, Faith, and Freewill: Voltaire's Candide and Pascal's Pensées." In Sublimer Aspects: Interfaces Between Literature, Aesthetics, and Theology, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007.
Vandersluis, Melora. "Angelic Airs, Subversive Songs: Music as Social Discourse in the Victorian Novel, by Alisa Clapp-Itnyre. Athens: Ohio UP, 2002." Book review printed in George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies, September 2005.
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Professional Involvement and Accomplishments
Elected member, Marquis’ Who’s Who, 2007-08
Recipient of research grant in conjunction with summer seminar, 2007
Elected fellow, Leadership Development Institute funded by the Bennett Memorial Foundation, Cedar Springs, Washington, 2002
Recipient of research grant in conjunction with summer seminar, 2007
Elected fellow, Leadership Development Institute funded by the Bennett Memorial Foundation, Cedar Springs, Washington, 2002
Expertise
Critical Theory
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century British Fiction
Faculty Development
Jane Austen
Leadership Talks
Note: This information is current for the 2007-08 academic year. For additional information, please contact the appropriate office.
