Danielle Nielsen

"The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define." – E.M. Forster

Education

• Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University
• M.A., Case Western Reserve University
• B.A., Nebraska Wesleyan University

Highlighted Publications

• "Samuel Butler's Life and Habit and The Way of All Flesh: Traumatic Evolution." English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 54.1 (January 2011): 79-100.
• "Survival and Acceptance in Flora Annie Steel's On the Face of the Water." Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 8.1 (Spring 2012).
• "The Dangerous New Woman in the Victorian Press: 'blind alike to maiden modesty and maternal dignity.'" The Latchkey 4 (Spring 2012).

 

Selected Works of Dr. Nielsen

• Can Everybody Read What's Posted? Accessibility in the Online Writing Classroom
• Epideictic Rhetoric and British Citizenship Practices Remembering British Heroes from the 1857 Indian Uprising at Civic Celebrations
• Exploring Transformative Usability in the Business and Professional Writing Classroom
• Exploring Transformative Usability in the Professional Writing Classroom
• Identity Performance in Roleplaying Games
• Inventing a Space to Speak: Ethos, Agency and United States’ Woman Suffrage Cookbooks (1886-1916)
• Material Culture and Remembering the 1857 Indian Uprising
• Samuel Butler's Life and Habit and The Way of All Flesh: Traumatic Evolution
• Survival and Acceptance in Flora Annie Steel's On the Face of the Waters: A Tale of the Mutiny
• The Dangerous ‘New Woman’ in the Victorian Press: ‘blind alike to maiden modesty and maternal dignity
• Universal Design in First-Year Composition – Why Do We Need It, How Can We Do It?
• Without Allies: Adela Quested as Failed New Woman in E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India
• “Women Who Serve in Times of Need: Recreating the Uprising in Flora Annie Steel’s Voices in the Night: A Chromatic Fantasia.”
• Interdisciplinary Team Teaching Reflections on Praxis and Pedagogy in an Undergraduate Classroom
• Celebrity memes, audioshop, and participatory fan culture: A case study on Keanu Reeves memes
• Facilitating Service Learning in the Online Technical Communication Classroom

Courses Taught

• ENG 105 Critical Reading, Writing and Inquiry
• ENG 221 Introduction to English Studies
• ENG 330 Special Topics: Race, Gender and Professional Writing
• ENG 330 Special Topics: Writing for the Web
• ENG 404 Advanced Composition
• ENG 626 Advanced Technical Writing
• ENG 630 Issues in Technical and Professional Writing: Race and Gender
• ENG 681 Special Topics: Writing for the Web
• GDS 351 Topics in Gender and Diversity: Race, Gender and Professional Writing

Areas of Specialization

• Rhetoric and Composition
• Professional and Technical Communication
• Victorian and 20th-Century British Literature
• Literature of the Empire
• Gender and Language
• Print Culture and New Media

Leadership and Service

• Coordinator, First-Year Composition

Professional Memberships and Affiliations

• College English Association
• Conference on College Composition and Communication
• Midwest Modern Language Association
• Modern Language Association
• Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society