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Biography
Dr. Rebecca Maatta has been with 香蕉视频 since 2015 as a Teaching Associate Professor in the English & Theater Arts department. She teaches first-year writing courses as well as writing-intensive classes in the health humanities including Healthcare & Literature, Anatomy & the Archive, and Nursing & Narrative. She also co-teaches the Anatomy sequence with faculty in the Physical Therapy Department.
Dr. Rebecca Maatta has been the recipient of the following awards:
- John G. Rangos Prize, with Anne Burrows & Ben Kivlan, internal grant to create campus memorial garden for human body donors (Spring 2023)
- Presidential Scholarship Award in Teaching, with Anne Burrows, Department of Physical Therapy (Spring 2022)
- President's Award for Excellence in Teaching (Spring 2021)
- McAnulty College & Graduate School of Liberal Arts Award for Excellence in Teaching (Spring 2021)
- Creative Teaching Award (Spring 2021)
Education
Ph.D., Literary and Cultural Studies, Carnegie Mellon University, 2009
M.A., Literary and Cultural Studies, Carnegie Mellon University, 2002
B.A., English and Creative Writing, Carnegie Mellon University, 2001
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- Healthcare and Literature
- Thinking and Writing across the Curriculum
- Imaginative Literature and Critical Writing
- College Writing Interpreting Literature
- Interpretation and Argument
- Shakespeare's Histories and Tragedies
- Shakespeare's Comedies and Romances
- Nineteenth-Century Science Fiction
- The Victorian Novel
- British Literature of the Romantic Period
- Introduction to Gender Studies
- Advanced Gender Studies
- Fin de Si猫cle Gothic
- The Bront毛s
鈥溾榃hen the dreadful steel was plunged into the breast鈥: Teaching Romantic Surgeons,
Anatomists, and Bodysnatchers to Students in Health Sciences,鈥 Romantic Circles Pedagogy
Commons special issue on Romanticism, teaching, and wellbeing (accepted).
鈥淭eaching with the Archive when the Archive Shuts Down,鈥 Essays in Romanticism, vol. 28, no. 2, 2021, pp. 113-126
As Rebecca E. May: 鈥淭racking the Unruly Cadaver: Dracula and Victorian Coroners鈥 Reports,鈥 Bram Stoker and the Late-Victorian World, edited by Matthew Gibson and Sabine Muller, Clemson University Press in conjunction with Liverpool University Press, 2019, pp. 121-146.
As Rebecca E. May: 鈥溾楾his shattered prison鈥: Bodily Dissolution, Wuthering Heights and Joseph Maclise鈥檚 Dissection Manuals.鈥 Nineteenth-Century Contexts 33.5 (2011): 415-436.
As Rebecca E. May: 鈥淢orbid Parts: Gender, Seduction and the Necro-Gaze,鈥 Sexual Perversions, 1670-1890. Ed. Julie Peakman. New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. pp. 167-201.
鈥淭eaching with the Archive when the Archive Shuts Down,鈥 Essays in Romanticism, vol. 28, no. 2, 2021, pp. 113-126
As Rebecca E. May: 鈥淭racking the Unruly Cadaver: Dracula and Victorian Coroners鈥 Reports,鈥 Bram Stoker and the Late-Victorian World, edited by Matthew Gibson and Sabine Muller, Clemson University Press in conjunction with Liverpool University Press, 2019, pp. 121-146.
As Rebecca E. May: 鈥溾楾his shattered prison鈥: Bodily Dissolution, Wuthering Heights and Joseph Maclise鈥檚 Dissection Manuals.鈥 Nineteenth-Century Contexts 33.5 (2011): 415-436.
As Rebecca E. May: 鈥淢orbid Parts: Gender, Seduction and the Necro-Gaze,鈥 Sexual Perversions, 1670-1890. Ed. Julie Peakman. New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. pp. 167-201.
鈥淢edical humanities pedagogy in the cadaver lab: using narrative to promote empathy
and metacognition,鈥 with Anne Burrows, American Association for Anatomy, Washington
DC, March 2023.
鈥淲hat鈥檚 a Victorianist Like You Doing in a Cadaver Lab Like This?鈥 Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, March 2022.
鈥淔rom Dissertation Defense to Women鈥檚 Shelter in Eight Weeks: Navigating Higher Ed with PTSD,鈥 Rhetoric of Health & Medicine Symposium, September 2021, virtual.
鈥淪tudents in Liberal Arts & the Health Sciences Design a Gallery Exhibit on the History of Anatomy,鈥 Bridges and Borders conference, hosted by Carnegie Mellon University, April 2021, co-presentation with Thora P. Brylowe.
鈥淓pidemiological Maps and the Death of Romanticism,鈥 accepted for the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Los Angeles, March 2020, and withdrawn due to COVID.
鈥淭eaching Victorian Anatomists to Students in Health Sciences,鈥 Victorian Interdisciplinary Association of the Western United States, November 2019, Seattle, Washington.
鈥溾橳he very subject before us鈥he flies that haunt the places of dissection鈥: Teaching Anatomical Knowledge Using Archival Illustrations,鈥 American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, March 2019, Denver, Colorado.
鈥溾楢 gash in the universe鈥: Consumption and Annihilation in Poppy Z. Brite鈥檚 鈥楥alcutta, Lord of Nerves鈥欌 Midwest Modern Language Association, Kansas City, MO, November 2018.
鈥溾橧t was of unpainted deal, plain, strong, and scrupulously clean鈥: The Victorian Autopsy Table and Tabulating England鈥檚 Health,鈥 Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, San Francisco, CA, March 2018.
鈥淭racking the Unruly Cadaver: Dracula and Victorian Coroners鈥 Reports,鈥 Midwest Modern Language Association, Cincinnati, OH, November 2017.
鈥淰ictorian Coroners鈥 Reports, Form, and Fragments,鈥 Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Muhlenberg College, March 2017.
鈥淣atural History and the Unnatural Woman: Reframing Taxidermy as a New Woman鈥檚 Art,鈥 Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Appalachian State University, March 2016.
鈥溾橧 went into my laboratory to plan murder鈥n the biggest scale it has ever been planned.鈥: The Beetle鈥檚 Sydney Atherton as Vivisector-Hero,鈥 English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities, Slippery Rock University, October, 2015.
鈥淐ork Legs and Steam Arms: Mechanical Surgery, and the Manufacture and Marketing of Artificial Limbs in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America,鈥 Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Georgia Institute of Technology, April 2015.
鈥淏odies Yet Unknown: Gothic Literature, Vivisection, and the Physiological Sublime,鈥 Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, University of Houston, March 2014.
鈥淧rurient Didacticism?: The Social Life of Anatomical Specimens in Nineteenth-Century Britain,鈥 Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, U Virginia, March 2013.
鈥淛oseph Maclise and Nineteenth-Century Anatomical Illustration,鈥 Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, U Kentucky, March 2012.
鈥淛oseph Maclise and the Anatomical Arts Tradition,鈥 Pennsylvania Medical Humanities Consortium, Philadelphia, PA, May 2010.
鈥淎lter the Body, Alter the Being: Vivisection as Intervention in The Island of Dr. Moreau,鈥 Pennsylvania Medical Humanities Consortium, Hershey, PA, May 2009.
鈥淲hat鈥檚 a Victorianist Like You Doing in a Cadaver Lab Like This?鈥 Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, March 2022.
鈥淔rom Dissertation Defense to Women鈥檚 Shelter in Eight Weeks: Navigating Higher Ed with PTSD,鈥 Rhetoric of Health & Medicine Symposium, September 2021, virtual.
鈥淪tudents in Liberal Arts & the Health Sciences Design a Gallery Exhibit on the History of Anatomy,鈥 Bridges and Borders conference, hosted by Carnegie Mellon University, April 2021, co-presentation with Thora P. Brylowe.
鈥淓pidemiological Maps and the Death of Romanticism,鈥 accepted for the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Los Angeles, March 2020, and withdrawn due to COVID.
鈥淭eaching Victorian Anatomists to Students in Health Sciences,鈥 Victorian Interdisciplinary Association of the Western United States, November 2019, Seattle, Washington.
鈥溾橳he very subject before us鈥he flies that haunt the places of dissection鈥: Teaching Anatomical Knowledge Using Archival Illustrations,鈥 American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, March 2019, Denver, Colorado.
鈥溾楢 gash in the universe鈥: Consumption and Annihilation in Poppy Z. Brite鈥檚 鈥楥alcutta, Lord of Nerves鈥欌 Midwest Modern Language Association, Kansas City, MO, November 2018.
鈥溾橧t was of unpainted deal, plain, strong, and scrupulously clean鈥: The Victorian Autopsy Table and Tabulating England鈥檚 Health,鈥 Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, San Francisco, CA, March 2018.
鈥淭racking the Unruly Cadaver: Dracula and Victorian Coroners鈥 Reports,鈥 Midwest Modern Language Association, Cincinnati, OH, November 2017.
鈥淰ictorian Coroners鈥 Reports, Form, and Fragments,鈥 Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Muhlenberg College, March 2017.
鈥淣atural History and the Unnatural Woman: Reframing Taxidermy as a New Woman鈥檚 Art,鈥 Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Appalachian State University, March 2016.
鈥溾橧 went into my laboratory to plan murder鈥n the biggest scale it has ever been planned.鈥: The Beetle鈥檚 Sydney Atherton as Vivisector-Hero,鈥 English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities, Slippery Rock University, October, 2015.
鈥淐ork Legs and Steam Arms: Mechanical Surgery, and the Manufacture and Marketing of Artificial Limbs in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America,鈥 Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Georgia Institute of Technology, April 2015.
鈥淏odies Yet Unknown: Gothic Literature, Vivisection, and the Physiological Sublime,鈥 Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, University of Houston, March 2014.
鈥淧rurient Didacticism?: The Social Life of Anatomical Specimens in Nineteenth-Century Britain,鈥 Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, U Virginia, March 2013.
鈥淛oseph Maclise and Nineteenth-Century Anatomical Illustration,鈥 Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, U Kentucky, March 2012.
鈥淛oseph Maclise and the Anatomical Arts Tradition,鈥 Pennsylvania Medical Humanities Consortium, Philadelphia, PA, May 2010.
鈥淎lter the Body, Alter the Being: Vivisection as Intervention in The Island of Dr. Moreau,鈥 Pennsylvania Medical Humanities Consortium, Hershey, PA, May 2009.