About
Shelley holds a Ph.D. in Theatre History & Criticism from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Master's in English (Dramatic Literature) from the University of Kansas. She has taught writing in various forms and departments (English at the University of Kansas; Theatre & Dance, Rhetoric & Writing, and the Digital Writing & Research Lab at the University of Texas) for over twenty years.
At the Sweetland Center, Shelley particularly enjoys working with the Minor in Writing Program, for which she helped launch a student-run literary journal (Writer to Writer), and teaching in the Lloyd Hall Scholars Program. She also runs Sweetland's Writer to Writer conversation series in collaboration with Literati Bookstore and WCBN.
Shelley's research interests include the using theater techniques to teach writing, rhetoric of perfomance, television, 20th-21st Century drama, dramaturgy. Her work has appeared in Theatre Topics, the Journal of American Theatre & Drama, and The Quarterly Review of Film and Video.
Fields of Study/Research Interests
Rhetoric & Composition, Drama, Theatre History & Criticism, Performance Studies
Courses/Teaching Assignments
Writing: 100, 200, 220, 420
LHSP: 130, 230
LSWA: 125, 230
CSP: 125 (Summer Bridge Scholars Program)
Affiliation(s)
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
College Composition & Communication (CCC)
American Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)
American Theatre & Drama Society (ATDS)
Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of America (LMDA)
National Communications Association (NCA)
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Presentations
“Why We Should All Be Teaching the Archbishop’s Ceiling.” Arthur Miller Scholars’ Symposium (Arthur Miller at Michigan and Beyond), Ann Arbor, MI, October 2015.
“Grave Robbing or Savvy Revision?: What Happened When Tony Kushner Revised Homebody/Kabul?” Drama Interest Group Colloquium (ProcessPracticePedagogy: The State of Theatre and Performance Scholarship in the Region), Ann Arbor, MI, March 2014.
“When Life Takes Away Your Bullets, There’s Always the Bayonette”: Playing with Genre for Political Purposes in George Brant’s Grizzly Mama,”Association for Theatre in Higher Education National Convention, Washington D.C., August 2012
“Rethinking the Grave of Cain Scene in Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul,” American Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS) Plains States Work-in-Progress Colloquium, Lawrence, KS, April 2012
“Rhetoric on the Stage, Performance on the Page” (Session Co-Coordinator “From Stage to Page: Rhetoric and Performance in the Writing Classroom”), CCCC Convention, Atlanta, GA, April 2011
