Dr. Angela C. O’Neal

Chair, Department of English, Modern Language, & Liberal Arts, Professor of English

706-233-7650
aoneal@shorter.edu 315 Shorter Ave.
Rome, Georgia 30165

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Educational Background

• Ph. D., English Literature, Arizona State University
• B. A. English, The University of Georgia

Courses Taught

• Composition I
• Composition II
• British Literature I and II (2000 and 3000-level)
• Jane Austen (2000-level)
• C. S. Lewis (2000 and 3000-level)
• Romantic Literature
• Creative Non-Fiction
• Literary Criticism & Research Methods

Teaching Experience

• 2008-present Shorter University
• 2003-2005 Instructor, University of Memphis
• 2001-2003 Graduate Teaching Associate, Arizona State University

Areas of Specialization

• British Romanticism
• The British Enlightenment
• The Human Body, Illness, Medicine, and Literature
• Cultural Studies
• Art History/Iconography and Literature
• Christianity and Postmodernity

Publications

Books/Chapbooks

• This Persistent Gravityforthcoming from Finishing Line Press (2023)
• The Way Things Fallfrom Anchor & Plume Press (2017)

Prose

• “Pieces” from Sycamore Review
• “Atlantis” from River Teeth Journal’s Beautiful Things
• “Paradise Lost” from River Teeth Journal’s Beautiful Things 
• “In June or January: The Myth of Summertime”on Intervarsity’s Emerging Scholar’s Network (ESN) Blog (August 2018)
• “Your Crooked Heart”: Literature and Spiritual Formationon Intervarsity’s Emerging Scholar’s Network (ESN) blog.
• “Suspicion as Spiritual Praxis” on Intervarsity’s (IVF) Emerging Scholar’s Network blog
• “Animals and Atoms: The Creative Imagination and the Body of Christ” on IVF’s Emerging Scholar’s Network blog
• Intervarsity’s The Well: “Believing God” “Daily Bread” “Opals” and “Minding the Gap”
• “Form and Phantasm: The Poetry of Blake’s Eternal(ly) Slender Bodies.”  Lussier, Mark and Bruce Matsunaga, eds. Engaged Romanticism: Romanticism as Praxis. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008.

Anthologies

• “Ezekiel” in Cumberland River Review Print Anthology

Poetry

• “Flathead Valley” from The Fourth River’s Tributaries Series
• “The Valley” from Cumberland River Review
• “The Good Snake”; “Fixer-Upper”; and “Against Love Poetry” from Calla Press
• “The Law of Falling Bodies” from San Pedro River Review
• “Extinction” from Second Chance Lit
• “After the Iridotomy” from The Christian Century
• “Notes on Deism” and “Empty Nesting” from Relief: A Journal of Art and Faith
• “God Speaks” from The Windhover
• “The Milky Way” and “The Anniversary” Psaltery & Lyre
• “Hosea, Single” and “Gardensong” from Reformed Journal
• “Redemption” and “Jacob” from The Chimes
• “Maricopa County Fair” Gravel: A Literary Journal
• “Deus Ex Machina” Kindred (Pushcart Prize nomination)
• “Laundry” Kindred
• “Imago” Stirring: A Literary Collection
• “Ezekiel”Cumberland River Review
• “When the moon tells us of losses”Cumberland River Review (Pushcart Prize nomination)
• “Theodicy” San Pedro River Review
• “One” The Chimes
• “Extinction” and “The Vision” Kentucky Review

Awards

• President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship (SU 2018)
• Pushcart Prize Nominee for “When the moon tells us of losses” The Cumberland River Review (2015) and “Deus Ex Machina” (2016)
• Outstanding Supporter of Shorter First-Year Students
• Outstanding Graduate Student, Arizona State University (2006-2007)
• Best Graduate Student Paper, International Conference on Romanticism (2006)

Conference Presentations and Lectures

• “Being Reconciled to God” presented at the Northrise University Women’s Conference, Impact Ndola, Zambia, Africa (July 2017)
• “The Work of the Chair Today” at the Association of Departments of English(ADE) Summer Seminar West. Scottsdale, Arizona (June 2016).
• “‘What are men to rocks and mountains?’: Jane Austen’s Vision of Female Reform in Pride & Prejudice” presented to English Speaking Union and Atlanta Chapter of Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA). Peachtree Road United Methodist Church (May 2013).
• “Passion as Praxis in Eliza Haywood’s Narrative of the Reformed Coquette.” British Women Writer’s Conference, Albuquerque, NM. (April 2013).
• “Believing God” presented at the Young Women’s Conference, Northrise University, Zambia, Africa. (August 2012).
• “‘Hardly any figure at all’: Pain, Poetry, and the Romantic Body.” International Conference on Romanticism, City University of New York (November 2009).
• “Form and Phantasm: The Poetry of Blake’s Eternal(ly) Slender Bodies.” 13th Annual International Conference on Romanticism (ICR), Arizona State University (November 2006).
• “‘Slender Nerves’: Anorexia and the Body of Sensibility.” Western Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies (WSECS), Arizona State University (18 February 2006).
• Panel Chair, “New Sciences.” Western Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies. Arizona State University (18 February 2006).
• “Bodies in Text: Textual Authority in Shakespeare’s King Henry VI Part II.” Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, University of Nevada at Las Vegas (27 May 2002).
• “Deception & Discretion: Secrecy in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility.” Western Society of Eighteenth–Century Studies (WSECS), Arizona State University (18 February 2001).