University Directory

Christine Flanagan, MFA

Professor

Department

Department of English, Writing and Journalism

Office

Merion Hall, 135 McNeil Science and Technology Center, 275

Phone

610-660-1898

Contact

In addition to developing travel-based coursework in the humanities, Christine Flanagan’s teaching and scholarship reflects her varied interests and activities: writing fiction, nonfiction, and drama; scholarship on the short stories of Flannery O’Connor; and research on experiential learning and creativity.

- B.A., University of Rochester
- M.F.A., Emerson College
Teaching Honors & Professional Distinctions
- Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching, 2017
- National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, 2014
- Pushcart Prize Nomination, 2012, 2010, 2009, 2008
- Patricia Leahy Award for Learning Innovation, USciences, 2009
- Bright Idea Award (Teaching Innovation), USciences, 2008 and 2007
- William F. Homiller Award for Teaching Excellence, USciences, 2006
Selected Publications: Scholarly
- "The Letters of Flannery O’Connor and Caroline Gordon" 1951-1964. Univ. of Georgia Press (2018).
- “Eternal ‘Greenleaf’: Flannery O’Connor’s Environmental Imagination.” Flannery O’Connor Critical Edition eds. M. Bruce Gentry and R. Donahoo (Modern Language Association, 2019).
- “Social Distortion: Displaced Landscapes and the Machines of Progress in Flannery O’Connor’s ‘The Displaced Person’ and ‘A View of the Woods’.” Flannery O’Connor Review (2017-Special issue: Technology & O’Connor, ed. Doug Davis).
- “From Earth to Eternity: Ecocritical Approaches to ‘Greenleaf’ and ‘A View of the Woods.’” Critical Insights: Flannery O’Connor (Salem Press, 2016) ed. Robert Evans.
- “East of Eden: Flannery O’Connor’s Moral and Ecological Vision.” Ragione, Fiction e Fede: Convegno Internazionale su Flannery O’Connor, Poetica & Cristianesimo 2009. Edited by Enrique Fuster and John Wauck Edusc, Roma.
- “The Superfund Gothic: Susanne Antonetta’s Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir.” New Directions in Ecofeminist Literary Criticism (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008). Ed. Andrea Campbell.
Selected Publications: Creative Work
- “Bright Spots: A USciences Professor Shares Her Experience Teaching During COVID-19.” USciences Bulletin, Spring, 2020 [print and online]. Essay.
- "The Woods." Painted Bride Quarterly (2010). Online journal (2011) and print journal (2010). Essay. Creative nonfiction.
- "Departure." The Broad River Review (2009). Fiction.
- "Pageant." Pisgah Review (2008). Fiction.
- "Return to Ithaca." Philadelphia Stories (2007). Republished in Philly Fiction II (2009) and performed live at Writing Aloud/Interact Theater (2008). Fiction.
- "Unfurnished" (2005). Riant Theatre/Baruch Performing Arts Center Winter Short Play Festival, The Riant Theatre (New York). Drama.