Donna Paparella

Donna Paparella is a Lecturer in the Department of English at Hunter College's School of Arts and Sciences. She specializes in Childhood Studies, 19th Century British and Transatlantic Literature and Culture, and Composition and Rhetoric.

• Education: PhD and M.Phil from CUNY Graduate Center; BA from Columbia University

Her research focuses on intersections between literary and legal discourses in 19th-century British and Transatlantic contexts, particularly examining representations of childhood in fiction and their influence on child law development. She also integrates interdisciplinary methodologies in her scholarship.

Donna teaches first-year writing, literature courses, children's literature, and seminars on the nineteenth-century novel. Her professional background includes private sector experience in research and marketing, alongside academic entrepreneurship through a small business venture.