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Biography
Dr. Rebecca Maatta has been with 91制片厂 since 2015 as a Teaching Associate Professor in the English & Theater Arts department. She teaches first-year writing courses as well as writing-intensive classes in the health humanities including Healthcare & Literature, Anatomy & the Archive, and Nursing & Narrative. She also co-teaches the Anatomy sequence with faculty in the Physical Therapy Department.
Dr. Rebecca Maatta has been the recipient of the following awards:
- John G. Rangos Prize, with Anne Burrows & Ben Kivlan, internal grant to create campus memorial garden for human body donors (Spring 2023)
- Presidential Scholarship Award in Teaching, with Anne Burrows, Department of Physical Therapy (Spring 2022)
- President's Award for Excellence in Teaching (Spring 2021)
- McAnulty College & Graduate School of Liberal Arts Award for Excellence in Teaching (Spring 2021)
- Creative Teaching Award (Spring 2021)
Education
- Ph.D., Literary and Cultural Studies, Carnegie Mellon University, 2009
- M.A., Literary and Cultural Studies, Carnegie Mellon University, 2002
- B.A., English and Creative Writing, Carnegie Mellon University, 2001
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- ENGL 115C: Mental Illness & Literature
- ENGL 251W: Nursing and Narrative
- ENGL 306W: Anatomy & The Archive
- ENGL 316W: Healthcare and Literature
- ENGL 318: British Literature II
- BRDG 101: Writing & Analysis
- BRDG 102: Literature & Writing
Co-Instructor
- HLTS 320-321/470: Anatomy I & II
- PHYT 435/535W: Psychology of Illness and Disability
鈥溾�榃hen the dreadful steel was plunged into the breast鈥�: Teaching Romantic Surgeons,
Anatomists, and Bodysnatchers to Students in Health Sciences,鈥� Romantic Circles Pedagogy
Commons special issue on Romanticism, teaching, and wellbeing (accepted).
鈥淭eaching with the Archive when the Archive Shuts Down,鈥� Essays in Romanticism, vol. 28, no. 2, 2021, pp. 113-126
As Rebecca E. May: 鈥淭racking the Unruly Cadaver: Dracula and Victorian Coroners鈥� Reports,鈥� Bram Stoker and the Late-Victorian World, edited by Matthew Gibson and Sabine Muller, Clemson University Press in conjunction with Liverpool University Press, 2019, pp. 121-146.
As Rebecca E. May: 鈥溾�楾his shattered prison鈥�: Bodily Dissolution, Wuthering Heights and Joseph Maclise鈥檚 Dissection Manuals.鈥� Nineteenth-Century Contexts 33.5 (2011): 415-436.
As Rebecca E. May: 鈥淢orbid Parts: Gender, Seduction and the Necro-Gaze,鈥� Sexual Perversions, 1670-1890. Ed. Julie Peakman. New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. pp. 167-201.
鈥淭eaching with the Archive when the Archive Shuts Down,鈥� Essays in Romanticism, vol. 28, no. 2, 2021, pp. 113-126
As Rebecca E. May: 鈥淭racking the Unruly Cadaver: Dracula and Victorian Coroners鈥� Reports,鈥� Bram Stoker and the Late-Victorian World, edited by Matthew Gibson and Sabine Muller, Clemson University Press in conjunction with Liverpool University Press, 2019, pp. 121-146.
As Rebecca E. May: 鈥溾�楾his shattered prison鈥�: Bodily Dissolution, Wuthering Heights and Joseph Maclise鈥檚 Dissection Manuals.鈥� Nineteenth-Century Contexts 33.5 (2011): 415-436.
As Rebecca E. May: 鈥淢orbid Parts: Gender, Seduction and the Necro-Gaze,鈥� Sexual Perversions, 1670-1890. Ed. Julie Peakman. New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. pp. 167-201.
鈥淢edical humanities pedagogy in the cadaver lab: using narrative to promote empathy
and metacognition,鈥� with Anne Burrows, American Association for Anatomy, Washington
DC, March 2023.
鈥淲hat鈥檚 a Victorianist Like You Doing in a Cadaver Lab Like This?鈥� Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, March 2022.
鈥淔rom Dissertation Defense to Women鈥檚 Shelter in Eight Weeks: Navigating Higher Ed with PTSD,鈥� Rhetoric of Health & Medicine Symposium, September 2021, virtual.
鈥淪tudents in Liberal Arts & the Health Sciences Design a Gallery Exhibit on the History of Anatomy,鈥� Bridges and Borders conference, hosted by Carnegie Mellon University, April 2021, co-presentation with Thora P. Brylowe.
鈥淓pidemiological Maps and the Death of Romanticism,鈥� accepted for the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Los Angeles, March 2020, and withdrawn due to COVID.
鈥淭eaching Victorian Anatomists to Students in Health Sciences,鈥� Victorian Interdisciplinary Association of the Western United States, November 2019, Seattle, Washington.
鈥溾�橳he very subject before us鈥he flies that haunt the places of dissection鈥�: Teaching Anatomical Knowledge Using Archival Illustrations,鈥� American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, March 2019, Denver, Colorado.
鈥溾�楢 gash in the universe鈥�: Consumption and Annihilation in Poppy Z. Brite鈥檚 鈥楥alcutta, Lord of Nerves鈥欌�� Midwest Modern Language Association, Kansas City, MO, November 2018.
鈥溾�橧t was of unpainted deal, plain, strong, and scrupulously clean鈥�: The Victorian Autopsy Table and Tabulating England鈥檚 Health,鈥� Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, San Francisco, CA, March 2018.
鈥淭racking the Unruly Cadaver: Dracula and Victorian Coroners鈥� Reports,鈥� Midwest Modern Language Association, Cincinnati, OH, November 2017.
鈥淰ictorian Coroners鈥� Reports, Form, and Fragments,鈥� Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Muhlenberg College, March 2017.
鈥淣atural History and the Unnatural Woman: Reframing Taxidermy as a New Woman鈥檚 Art,鈥� Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Appalachian State University, March 2016.
鈥溾�橧 went into my laboratory to plan murder鈥n the biggest scale it has ever been planned.鈥�: The Beetle鈥檚 Sydney Atherton as Vivisector-Hero,鈥� English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities, Slippery Rock University, October, 2015.
鈥淐ork Legs and Steam Arms: Mechanical Surgery, and the Manufacture and Marketing of Artificial Limbs in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America,鈥� Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Georgia Institute of Technology, April 2015.
鈥淏odies Yet Unknown: Gothic Literature, Vivisection, and the Physiological Sublime,鈥� Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, University of Houston, March 2014.
鈥淧rurient Didacticism?: The Social Life of Anatomical Specimens in Nineteenth-Century Britain,鈥� Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, U Virginia, March 2013.
鈥淛oseph Maclise and Nineteenth-Century Anatomical Illustration,鈥� Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, U Kentucky, March 2012.
鈥淛oseph Maclise and the Anatomical Arts Tradition,鈥� Pennsylvania Medical Humanities Consortium, Philadelphia, PA, May 2010.
鈥淎lter the Body, Alter the Being: Vivisection as Intervention in The Island of Dr. Moreau,鈥� Pennsylvania Medical Humanities Consortium, Hershey, PA, May 2009.
鈥淲hat鈥檚 a Victorianist Like You Doing in a Cadaver Lab Like This?鈥� Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, March 2022.
鈥淔rom Dissertation Defense to Women鈥檚 Shelter in Eight Weeks: Navigating Higher Ed with PTSD,鈥� Rhetoric of Health & Medicine Symposium, September 2021, virtual.
鈥淪tudents in Liberal Arts & the Health Sciences Design a Gallery Exhibit on the History of Anatomy,鈥� Bridges and Borders conference, hosted by Carnegie Mellon University, April 2021, co-presentation with Thora P. Brylowe.
鈥淓pidemiological Maps and the Death of Romanticism,鈥� accepted for the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Los Angeles, March 2020, and withdrawn due to COVID.
鈥淭eaching Victorian Anatomists to Students in Health Sciences,鈥� Victorian Interdisciplinary Association of the Western United States, November 2019, Seattle, Washington.
鈥溾�橳he very subject before us鈥he flies that haunt the places of dissection鈥�: Teaching Anatomical Knowledge Using Archival Illustrations,鈥� American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, March 2019, Denver, Colorado.
鈥溾�楢 gash in the universe鈥�: Consumption and Annihilation in Poppy Z. Brite鈥檚 鈥楥alcutta, Lord of Nerves鈥欌�� Midwest Modern Language Association, Kansas City, MO, November 2018.
鈥溾�橧t was of unpainted deal, plain, strong, and scrupulously clean鈥�: The Victorian Autopsy Table and Tabulating England鈥檚 Health,鈥� Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, San Francisco, CA, March 2018.
鈥淭racking the Unruly Cadaver: Dracula and Victorian Coroners鈥� Reports,鈥� Midwest Modern Language Association, Cincinnati, OH, November 2017.
鈥淰ictorian Coroners鈥� Reports, Form, and Fragments,鈥� Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Muhlenberg College, March 2017.
鈥淣atural History and the Unnatural Woman: Reframing Taxidermy as a New Woman鈥檚 Art,鈥� Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Appalachian State University, March 2016.
鈥溾�橧 went into my laboratory to plan murder鈥n the biggest scale it has ever been planned.鈥�: The Beetle鈥檚 Sydney Atherton as Vivisector-Hero,鈥� English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities, Slippery Rock University, October, 2015.
鈥淐ork Legs and Steam Arms: Mechanical Surgery, and the Manufacture and Marketing of Artificial Limbs in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America,鈥� Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Georgia Institute of Technology, April 2015.
鈥淏odies Yet Unknown: Gothic Literature, Vivisection, and the Physiological Sublime,鈥� Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, University of Houston, March 2014.
鈥淧rurient Didacticism?: The Social Life of Anatomical Specimens in Nineteenth-Century Britain,鈥� Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, U Virginia, March 2013.
鈥淛oseph Maclise and Nineteenth-Century Anatomical Illustration,鈥� Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, U Kentucky, March 2012.
鈥淛oseph Maclise and the Anatomical Arts Tradition,鈥� Pennsylvania Medical Humanities Consortium, Philadelphia, PA, May 2010.
鈥淎lter the Body, Alter the Being: Vivisection as Intervention in The Island of Dr. Moreau,鈥� Pennsylvania Medical Humanities Consortium, Hershey, PA, May 2009.