Nowell Marshall

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Lecturer

Dr. Marshall teaches first-year, professional, technical, and multimodal writing and multicultural literature and composition. 

Beyond his professional writing experience in journalism, marketing, and web design, he is the author of Romanticism, Gender, and Violence (Bucknell, 2013) and essays on British and American gothic (1764-present), contemporary LGBTQ literature, and speculative fiction and film. He works more broadly in identity studies, including gender, sexuality, race, class, and disability.

He is currently shopping his second book, Trans Bodies, Gothic Histories, working on another book project "Gothic Whiteness: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Monster Narratives,” has recent work in The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature and European Romantic Review, and has work forthcoming in The Routledge Companion to Drag, The Cambridge History of Women and British Romanticism, Romanticism and Heavy Metal, and The Bloomsbury Handbook to Queer Romanticism.

At previous institutions, he has taught eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature, post-1840 American literature, speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, and horror), literature and theory survey courses, business and professional writing, journalism, film and media studies, and web and document design. He also served as acting director of a gender and sexuality studies program where he was affiliated faculty for nine years.

Education:

MFA coursework in fiction writing, University of Nevada, Reno, 2019-2020

Ph.D. in English, University of California, Riverside, 2009

M.A. in English, Arizona State University, 2003

B.A. in English, emphasis on fiction writing, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2000