Melissa Schaub

Melissa Schaub is a Professor in the English Department at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke (UNCP) since 2003. She specializes in 19th-century British literature, women's literature, and middlebrow fiction. Her research emphasizes domestic, serial, and middlebrow novels by British women authors.

• Education: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin at Madison; degrees also from New College of Florida.

Her scholarly works include monographs like Performativity in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Shorter Fiction (2019) and Middlebrow Feminism in Classic British Detective Fiction (2013). Her journal articles explore authors such as Charlotte Yonge and Charles Dickens, focusing on intersections of gender, class, and literary form. She teaches first-year writing, British literature, and women’s literature courses.

No scientific awards are listed, but her contributions to literary studies are notable through her published works. She advises students in the English program and contributes to the Gender Studies Minor. Office hours are MW 1:00-3:00 PM and F 1:00-2:00 PM.