Angela C. O’Neal

Dr. Angela C. O’Neal is Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English, Modern Language, & Liberal Arts at Shorter University in Rome, Georgia. She has taught at Shorter since 2008, after earlier appointments at the University of Memphis and Arizona State University.

Education:

• Ph.D. in English Literature, Arizona State University
• B.A. in English, University of Georgia

Research & Teaching Interests:
Dr. O’Neal’s scholarship integrates British Romanticism and the Enlightenment with cultural studies, literature-and-medicine, and Christian thought. Her courses range from first-year composition to upper-division British surveys and seminars on Jane Austen, C. S. Lewis, and literary criticism.

Publications & Creative Work:
She is author of two poetry chapbooks—This Persistent Gravity (Finishing Line Press, forthcoming) and The Way Things Fall (Anchor & Plume Press)—and her poems and essays appear in Sycamore Review, River Teeth, The Christian Century, Cumberland River Review, and elsewhere. Pushcart Prize nominations recognize her poems “When the moon tells us of losses” and “Deus Ex Machina.”

Awards & Honors:

• President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship, Shorter University (2018)
• Outstanding Graduate Student, Arizona State University (2006-2007)
• Best Graduate Student Paper, International Conference on Romanticism (2006)
• Pushcart Prize nominations (2015, 2016)

Conference & Public Engagement:
Dr. O’Neal has delivered invited lectures in Zambia, chaired panels for the Association of Departments of English, and presented original research at multiple International Conferences on Romanticism and the British Women Writers Conference.