College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Vandersluis, Melora. Address to full faculty—Atlantic Baptist University, Moncton, New Brunswick, 2005

Vandersluis, Melora. Address to the Journalism/Communication Arts Department, Regent University, Virginia Beach, 2004

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. "Entering the Conversation: Research and Discussion Possibilities Beyond the Classroom," keynote speaker, Distinguished Scholars Banquet, Azusa Pacific University, 2006

Vandersluis, Melora. "Matching Needs with Expertise," panel presenter at the Campus-Based Faculty Development Project Conference, Boston, 2002

Vandersluis, Melora. "Old Texts, New Lenses: Classical Literature and Current Events," paper presented at the C.S. Lewis Faculty Forum Conference, Pomona, 2002

Vandersluis, Melora. "Paradox and Perspective in 'Jane Austen, Karl Marx, and the Aristocratic Dance,'" paper presented at the Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention, Philadelphia, 2006

Vandersluis, Melora. "Prophecy and Satire: The (Somewhat) Veiled Message and Mûsār," paper presented at the National Faculty Leadership Conference, Washington, D.C., 2006

Vandersluis, Melora. "Recovering the Past, Understanding the Present, and Imagining the Future," panel chair at the Annual Convention for the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), Chicago, 2002

Vandersluis, Melora. "Stand Firm and Keep Moving: The Paradox of Effective Leadership," keynote address to College of Liberal Arts and Sciences faculty at fall faculty retreat, Azusa Pacific University, 2005

Vandersluis, Melora. "The Da Vincian Principles," address to full faculty, Regent University, Virginia Beach, 2003

Vandersluis, Melora. "To Infinity and Beyond: Possibilities for Seamless, Integrative Teaching," invited plenary speaker at the National New Faculty Workshop, Southeastern University, Lakeland, 2006

Vandersluis, Melora. "Two Sides, One Coin: Effective Teaching and Integrative Scholarship," paper presented at the Campus-Based Faculty Development Project Conference, Boston, 2002

Vandersluis, Melora. "What I Mean About Green: Paradox, Purpose, and Possibility," keynote speaker for Sigma Tau Delta, Azusa, 2006

Vandersluis, Melora. "What Will Your Verse Be?: C.S. Lewis’s ‘Learning in War-Time’ and Studying in the Liberal Arts and Sciences," keynote address, Azusa Pacific University, 2006

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.

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. "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. Personal and Political Transformation in the Texts of Jane Austen. Lewiston: Edwin-Mellen Press, 2003.

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. Review of Getting Results: A Guide to Effective Writing in College and Beyond, March 2003.

Vandersluis, Melora. Review of The Bedford Anthology of World Literatures, 2nd Edition, April 2002.

Vandersluis, Melora. Review of The College Writer, by VanderMey, et al., April 2003.

Vandersluis, Melora. Review of The New Humanities Reader, by Richard E. Miller and Kurt Spellmeyer, March 2004.

Vandersluis, Melora. "Separation and Synthesis: Understanding the Two Worlds of David Daiches and Jane Austen." In David Daiches: A Life, Sussex: Sussex University Press, 2007.