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Mark Mossman
Professor
Office: Sherman Hall
Phone: (309) 298-1066
Email: ma-mossman@wiu.edu
Office Hours: by appointment
Other: Curriculum Vitae
Biography
- 19th Century Brit Literature; Disability Studies; Irish Studies
- Ph.D. English
Mark Mossman received his PhD from Saint Louis University in 1998. He joined the faculty at WIU in August 2001 after two years at Bethany College in West Virginia. Mark has had work published in such journals as College English, Nineteenth Century Feminisms, Postmodern Culture, Post Identity, European Romantic Review, andVictorian Literature and Culture. His book, Disability, Representation and the Body in Irish Writing: 1800-1922, which investigates how a disability framework can be read into 19th century Irish cultural practice, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in September 2009. Mark is now completing a second book project entitled Disabling the Victorian: Form, Body, and the Sensational Response.
In the News
- Mossman Named Interim Associate Provost, Director of School of Graduate Studies
- Mossman Teaches Dual Enrollment Course at Cambridge High School (Fall 2017)
- Top Books for English Majors (Fall 2017)
- A Letter from the Chair - A Major that Matters (Spring 2017)
- Poem in Your Pocket Day - Guess Who? (Spring 2017)
- 14th Annual John Hallwas Lecture - Pictured (2016)
- Mossman Leading Living Learning Community (Fall 2016)
- Mossman Awards English Secretary with CAS Employee of the Year (Fall 2016)
- A Letter from the Chair On Being Lost (Spring 2016)
- 15 Years at Western (Spring 2016)
- Boiler Room Reading Series Featured Faculty Reader (Spring 2016)
- A Letter from the Chair ’Poetry is Sound’ or, Sound in Simpkins Hall (Spring 2015)
- Wrote for "Perceptions" Exhibit Opening at WIU Art Gallery (2014)
- Writing Descriptions for the WIU's Art Gallery (Spring 2013)
- 10 Years at Western (Spring 2011)
- Mossman Made Chair in 2010 (2010)
- Mark Mossman’s book, Disability, Representation and the Body in Irish Writing: 1800-1922, was published by Palgrave Macmillan (Fall 2009)
- Ron and Leslie Walker Graduate Fellowships Established - Mossman Grad Director (Spring 2008)
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