Daniel
Shealy, Ph.D.
Professor of English
Education
Ph.D. University of South Carolina, 1985
M.A. University of South Carolina, 1983
B.A. Newberry College, 1979
Areas of Interest
American literature; children’s literature
One book in progress, titled Little Women Abroad: The Alcott Sisters’ Letters from Europe, which publishes all of the letters that Louisa May Alcott and her artist sister May Alcott wrote home during their 1870-71 grand tour of Europe.
A second book in progress, tentatively titled The Town Heard Round the World: Concord Fights the Civil War, explores how the entire town of Concord, MA, from its famous authors to its ordinary citizens, reacted to the war that tore apart the nation.
Selected Publications
Books:
Daniel Shealy, ed. Alcott In Her Own Time . Ames: University of Iowa Press, 2005.
Joel Myerson and Daniel Shealy, eds. The Inheritance. By Louisa May Alcott .
New York: Dutton, 1997; New York: Penguin, 1998.
Madeleine B. Stern and Daniel Shealy, eds. From Jo March’s Attic: Stories of Intrigue and Suspense. By Louisa May Alcott. Boston: Northeastern University Press,1993. Rptd. as The Lost Stories of Louisa May Alcott. New York: Citadel Press, 1994.
Daniel Shealy, ed. Louisa May Alcott’s Fairy Tales and Fantasy Stories. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1992.
Daniel Shealy, Joel Myerson, Madeleine B. Stern, eds. Freaks of Genius: More Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991.
Daniel Shealy, Joel Myerson, Madeleine B. Stern, eds. Louisa May Alcott: Selected Fiction. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1990; Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001.
Joel Myerson and Daniel Shealy, eds. The Journals of Louisa May Alcott.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1989; Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997.
Madeleine B. Stern, Joel Myerson, Daniel Shealy, eds. A Double Life: Newly Discovered Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1988; London: Macmillan, 1989.
Joel Myerson and Daniel Shealy, eds. The Selected Letters of Louisa May Alcott. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1987; Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995.
Recent Book Chapters and Articles:
Daniel Shealy. “Prospects for the Study of Louisa May Alcott.”Prospects for the Study of American Literature. Ed. Richard Kopley. New York: AMS Press, 2008. 102-124.
Daniel Shealy, “Louisa May Alcott’s Juvenilia.” The Child As Writer: From Jane Austin to Virginia Woolf. Ed. Christine Alexander and Juliet McMaster. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2005. 222-236.
Daniel Shealy, “’Work Well Done’: Louisa May Alcott and Mary Mapes Dodge.” St. Nicholas and Mary Mapes Dodge: The Legacy of a Children’s Magazine Editor, 1873-1905. Ed. Susan Gannon, Suzanne Rahn, and Ruth Anne Thompson. Jefferson, NC: MacFarland Press, 2004. 171-188.
Daniel Shealy, “The Growth of Little Things: Louisa May Alcott and
the Lukens Sisters’ Family Newspaper.” Resources for American Literary Study 30 (2006): 160-77.
Daniel Shealy, “‘Singing Mignon’s Song’: The Friendship of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Louisa May Alcott.” Emersonian Circles. Ed. Robert E. Burkholder and Wesley T. Mott.
Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 1996. 225-235.
Selected Grants
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend 1999
Bibliographical Society of America 1993
National Endowment for the Humanities Travel to Collections 1992
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend 1987
Courses Taught
Undergraduate:
English 3103 Children’s Literature
English 3300 Survey of American Literature
English 4050 Gothic American Literature
English 4103 Classic American Children’s Literature
English 4139 Early American Literature
English 4140 American Literature of the Romantic Period
English 4141 American Literature of the Realist and Naturalist Periods
Graduate:
English 6141 American Romanticism
English 6142 American Realism
English 6685 American Novel: Beginnings to Civil War
Professional Appointments
Faculty Appointments:
UNC Charlotte since 1988
Clemson University, 1985-88
Administrative Appointments:
Associate Dean of the Graduate School, UNCC, 1994-97
Graduate Coordinator, Dept. of English, UNCC, 1992-94
Awards
First Citizen’s Scholars Award Medal, UNC Charlotte, 1998
NationsBank Award for Excellence in Teaching (Finalist), UNC Charlotte. 1998
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