Melina Martin

Melina Martin, Professor

Melina Martin

Professor

English

probstm@cod.edu

(630)942-2288

BIC 2C06M

Professor room number

Education

  • Ph.D. in English Literature, Northern Illinois University
  • M.A. in English Literature, Northern Illinois University                                                                
  • B.A. in English, Elmhurst College

Courses Taught

  • ENGLI 2226: World Literature
  • ENGLI 2262: Non-Western Literature
  • ENGLI 1152: Poetry
  • ENGLI 1150: Short Fiction
  • ENGLI 1130: Introduction to Literature
  • ENGLI 1102: English Composition II
  • ENGLI 1101: English Composition I

Awards and Recognition

  • Outstanding Liberal Arts Faculty of the Year, 2017

Selected Publications, Presentations, Performances, Books

  • "The Inauthentic Translations in The Invention of Love"; "The Real Thing": Essays in Celebration of Tom Stoppard's 75th Birthday. Eds. Amanda Smothers and William Baker. Cambridge SP, 2013. 202-20
  • "Using Scenarios in a Composition Classroom to Foster Transferrable Skills" IATE Newsletter 49.2 (2012)
  • "The 'Ideality in his Mind': Charlotte Brontë's Method of Depicting America in Shirley." Victorians Institute Conference. Murfreesboro, TN. (November 2013)
  • "Matthew Arnold's Agenda for His Apparent Divagation from Emerson." Midwest Modern Language Association. Cincinnati, OH. (November 2012)
  • "'Only Connect': Building the Bridge between Theory and Practice to Encourage Meaningful Learning" with Nicole Smith. Illinois Association of Teachers of English. Bloomington, IL. (October 2012)
  • "Inquiry 2.0: Higher-Level Thinking and Digital Engagement for Student Writers" with Nicole Smith. Illinois Association of Teachers of English. Springfield, IL. (February 2012)
  • "Stoppard's Translations of Artists and Scholars in The Invention of Love." Midwest Modern Language Association. St. Louis, MO. (November 2011)
  • "The Distinctly American Book of Mormon: The Emphasis on Conversion by Sensory Experience and Testimony." Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association. Scottsdale, AZ. (October 2011)
  • "Conflict in the Classroom" with Nicole Cox-Budreau. Allerton English Articulation Conference. Champaign, IL. (April 2010)
  • "Willoughby's Letter in Sense and Sensibility as Artifice and Thus a Destruction of Mental and Physical Peace." Midwestern Conference on Language, Literature, and Media. DeKalb, IL. (March 2010)
  • "Henry Wilcox as Margaret Schlegel's Nemesis: An Examination of the Urban Culture's Influence on the Deterioration of the Soul in E.M. Forster's Howards End." Conference on Christianity and Literature. Wheaton, IL. (September 2009)
  • "An Anglo-Catholic's Poems' Ostensible Divagation from Anglo-Catholicism: Examining Death in Christina Rossetti's Poems." Midwestern Conference on Language, Literature, and Media. DeKalb, IL. (March 2009)