Nancy Strow Sheley

Nancy Strow Sheley received her Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Kansas (2001), a BA in English from Murray State University (KY), and an MA in English from the University of Illinois.  Before her hire at CSULB, she taught Washburn University (KS), CSULB, West Virginia University, The University of Alabama, Appalachian State University (NC), and in several high schools. 

Dr. Sheley's research interests include Children's Literacy, 19th-Century Women Writers, Primary Education in Rwanda, and Visual Culture.  In 2004, Dr. Sheley received a Fulbright-Hayes Travel Award to study Post-Genocide Rwanda. 

Her publications include articles in American Art, American Studies, Kansas English, and Resources in American Literary Studies (RALS). 

Currently, she holds a joint appointment in Liberal Studies and in English.

"Taking Up the Gauntlet:  George Henry Hall's Raspberries, 1868."  American Art (Smithsonian American Art Museum), Fall 2005.

"The Language of Flowers in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Other Nineteenth-Century American Works."  Resources for American Literary Studies (RALS), 2005.

"From Kansas to Kigali:  Assessing Post-Genocide Rwanda and the Role of Primary Education in Promoting Human Values." Kansas English, Fall 2005.

"Intellectualizing Ecstasy:  the Organic and Spiritual Abstractions of Agnes Pelton (1881-1961).  PART 9:  American Modernism.  On-line.  Fall 2003.  http://dsc.cuny.edu/part/part9/index.html

English Department/CLA:   Assistant Chair, Chair of Advisory Committee, English Education Coordinator/Liberal Studies

Liberal Studies Department/CED:  Teacher Prep Committee, Academic Senate; GWAR Committee, Academic Senate; Liberal Studies Department of the Whole

American Studies Program:  Steering committee