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Teresa Coronado, PhD |
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About Me |
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Phone: 262-595-2101 Fax: 262-595-2271 E-mail: coronado@uwp.edu |
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CURRENTLY: Assistant Professor of English (American Lit. to 1910) at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
EDUCATION Ph.D. English, University of Oregon, defended Spring 2008 Field: American Literature before 1900 M.A. English, Eastern New Mexico University, 2003 Thesis: “An Ocean of Space: An Examination of Place in Newfoundland Literature.” Chair: Nina Bjornsson B.A. English, Hillsdale College, cum laude, 1996
DISSERTATION “Locating the Butt of Ridicule: Early American Writers and Their Comic Personae.” Chair: Gordon Sayre, English. Committee: Mary Wood, English; Henry Wonham, English; Matthew Dennis, History. This project critiques the performance of class identity through the works of 18th and 19th century colonial and early national period authors, including Sarah Kemble Knight’s Journal of Madame Knight, William Byrd II’s The Secret History of the Line, Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography, The Autobiography of John Robert Shaw, the Narrative of John Marrant, a Black, and The Narrative of David Crockett using the lens of humor, primarily as posed by Elliot Oring and Henri Bergson’s theories of laughter and the ridiculous. My argument is that these works conceal the underpinnings of American class structures under a guise of laughter that can be revealed through close reading and historical research. In my dissertation I examine the performance of each author in his or her own autobiography and the reflection of that performance within the larger frame of the development of an American status structure.
AREAS OF INTEREST Colonial American Literature 19th century American Literature Ecocriticism Class, Race, Gender Studies Humor Studies Composition |
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