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Dr. Mary Christian

Locations:	Cochran - Jackson Hall - 213
Office Hours:	MW 11 am-12:15 pm; R 11 am-1:45 pm--Jackson 213 T 12:00-2:45 pm--Writing Center (Roberts Library 231) Online office hours: By appointment.
Biography:	I have taught at MGA since 2017. Before moving to Georgia, I lived in California, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, France, South Korea, and Indiana. I teach writing, world literature, and drama, and also do research on late nineteenth-century theater, especially the works of Henrik Ibsen and Bernard Shaw. I teach writing and literature courses because I believe that effective thinking and writing can help people to understand themselves and each other.
Courses:	Learning Support English Composition (ENGL 999) English Composition I (ENGL 1101) English Composition II (ENGL 1102) World Literature I (ENGL 2111) British Literature II (ENGL 2122) Gateway to Literary Studies (ENGL 3010) Introduction to Professional Writing (PFWR 3160) Practical Workplace Writing (PFWR 3170) Inquiry, Information, and Research Methods (PFWR 3180) Modern Drama (ENGL 3900) Special Topics in Literature--Medical Storytelling (ENGL 3999) Theory and Practice in Editing and Style (ENGL 5650)
Syllabi:	Christian-Mary-ENGL1101_FA25_29_84179_CHRISTIAN.pdf Christian-Mary-ENGL1102_FA25_18_83251_CHRISTIAN.pdf Christian-Mary-ENGL2122_FA25_02_85540_CHRISTIAN.pdf Christian-Mary-ENGL3900_FA25_01_85432_CHRISTIAN.pdf
Education:	Ph.D., English Literature, 2016, Indiana University M.A., English Literature, 2011, Indiana University B.A., English and French, 2008, Union College, Lincoln, NE
CV:	CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS “Medical Mummery: Shaw, Molière, and the Doctors.” Comparative Drama Conference, London, July 2025. “Queen Elizabeth through Irish Eyes, On and Off Stage.” Shaw conference, Dublin, Ireland, June 2024. “The Scientific Hopes of Bernard Shaw and George Eliot.” Comparative Drama Conference, Orlando, FL, April 2024. “Dangerous Goodness: Shaw’s True and False Prophets.” Shaw Conference, Williamsburg, VA, June 2023. “Medieval Protestants: Bernard Shaw’s Joan and George Eliot’s Savonarola.” Comparative Drama Conference, Orlando, FL, April 2023. “The Wrath to Come: Revisiting Bunyan in Too True to be Good.” Shaw Symposium, July 2022. “The Study and the Sermon: The Dramatic Methods of Harley Granville-Barker and George Bernard Shaw.” Comparative Drama Conference, Orlando, FL, October 2021. “Growing Up Like Romola: Shaw’s Assessment of George Eliot.” Shaw Symposium, July 2021. “Can I say ‘I’?: Personal Narrative as Rhetoric in College Writing.” Adventist English Association, Collegedale, TN, June 2019. “Stage Sermons in Candida and Getting Married.” Comparative Drama Conference, Orlando, FL, April 2019. “Sighing for Andromeda: Astronomy, Morality, and World-Making in Late-Victorian Drama.” North American Victorian Studies Association, St. Petersburg, FL, October 2018. “Cardplayers and Clergymen: Bernard Shaw, Henry Arthur Jones, and the Theater of the 1890s.” Comparative Drama Conference, Orlando, FL, April 2018. “The ����ֱ��-Class Heroine and the Rejection of Melodrama.” Shaw Conference, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada, July 2017. “The Tanqueray Dinner Theater: Marriage Performance and the Bachelor-Spectator in Late-Victorian Drama.” North American Victorian Studies Association, Phoenix, AZ, November 2016. “Gilbert, Shaw, and Shameless Drama.” Shaw Symposium, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada, July 2016. “Women’s Suffrage Drama and the Changing Uses of Beauty.” Adventist English Association, Keene, TX, June 2016. “You Never Can Tell about Caste: Shaw, Robertson, and Theatrical Generations in Conflict.” Shaw Symposium, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada, July 2015. “Exotic Ibsen: Envisioning Norway in Late-Victorian London.” North American Victorian Studies Association, Honolulu, HI, July 2015. “Acting Like an Advanced Woman: Shaw and the Performance of Ibsenism.” Shaw Symposium, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada, July 2014. “Loving Words: Candida and the Rhetoric of Romance.” Chicago Shaw Symposium, 2014.
Professional Experience:	Associate Professor, Department of English, ����ֱ��, 2023-present. Assistant Professor, Department of English, ����ֱ��, 2017-2023. Visiting Lecturer, Department of English, Indiana University, 2016-2017. Associate Instructor, Department of English, Indiana University, 2010-2015. Research Assistant, School of Library and Information Sciences, Indiana University, 2010. English Teacher, SDA Language Institute, Cheonan, South Korea, 2008-2009.
Awards and Honors:	James A. Work Memorial Award for outstanding graduate student achievement. English Department, Indiana University, 2016. Albert Wertheim Dissertation Fellowship for research in theatrical performance and dramatic texts. English Department, Indiana University, 2015-2016. Albert Wertheim Essay Prize for essay on theater, drama, or performance studies. English Department, Indiana University, 2013.
Publications:	Book: Marriage and Late-Victorian Dramatists. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030406387. Journal Articles: "George Eliot, Bernard Shaw, and Their Doctors' Dilemmas." SHAW: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies 44.1 (2024). “Growing Up Like Romola: The Spiritual Evolutions of George Eliot and Bernard Shaw.” SHAW: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies 42.2 (2022), 441-459. “‘A Doll’s House Conquered Europe’: Ibsen, his English Parodists, and the Debate over World Drama.” Humanities 8.2 (2019), https://doi.org/10.3390/h8020082. “Plays Present and Unpresent: Updating Shaw’s Drama in Performance.” SHAW: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies 38.1 (2018), 113-125. “Performing Marriage: A Doll’s House and its Reconstructions in Fin-de-Siècle London.” Theatre Survey 57.1 (2016), 43-62. “Bought with Silver: Victor Hugo, George Bernard Shaw, and the Economics of Salvation.” Religion and Literature 47.2 (2015), 1-22. “‘Not a Play’: Redefining Theater and Reforming Marriage in Candida.” SHAW: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies 35.2 (2015), 238-253. Book Reviews Gül Kurtuluş, Stereoscopic London: Plays of Oscar Wilde, Bernard Shaw and Arthur Wing Pinero. Victorian Studies 64.3 (2022), 482-483. Kay Li, Bernard Shaw’s Bridges to Chinese Culture. English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, 63.3 (2020), 475-478. L. W. Conolly, ed. Bernard Shaw’s Postmistress: The Memoir of Jisbella Georgina Lyth as Told to Romie Lambkin. SHAW: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies 39.2 (2019), 307-310. Robert Gaines, ed., Bernard Shaw’s Marriages and Misalliances. Culture in Focus 1.1 (2018), 80-82. Jeffrey Richards, The Golden Age of Pantomime: Slapstick, Spectacle and Subversion in Victorian England. Victorian Studies 59.3 (2017), 510-511.

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