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Carla Coleman
Assistant Professor
Office: H&SS A7
Email: carlac@usca.edu
Dr. Carla Coleman is one of the two newest English faculty members at USCA. She came most recently from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she graduated with a doctorate in English; her major emphasis is on nineteenth-Century British literature, and her secondary emphasis is in Western drama.
After graduation, she spent several years as a visiting professor in the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Dramatic Art, where she taught courses in dramatic literature. Dr. Coleman’s main research interest is in the intersections of theatre performance and the novel in nineteenth-century Britain, as well as the intersection of that period’s newly emerging scientific discourse with more popular, non-scientific literature. In addition to teaching at UNC-Chapel Hill, she also served as a visiting professor at Elon University, near Burlington, NC.
This fall, Dr. Coleman taught the British Romanticism course, in addition to AEGL 101. This spring, besides three sections of AEGL 102, she will be teaching Victorian literature, where she hopes to undermine her students’ clichéd belief that all Victorians were prudish and that all Victorian literature is stuffy.
In addition to acclimating to her new life in Aiken and preparing for her courses, Dr. Coleman chaired two panels at this fall’s Victori ans Institute conference in Spartanburg, where she was re-elected as one of the organization’s two members-at-large. She is currently working on a paper under consideration for a collection devoted to Victorian novelist Mary Elizabeth Braddon. She is also preparing a conference presentation on performance in Charlotte Bronte’s Villette, as well as one on evolutionary discourse in Charles Kingsley’s children’s novella The Water-Babies.
