Dr. Beth Boswell

Senior Lecturer, English Director of Composition, English

Contact

1310 Ben Graves Drive
Morton Hall
Room 278L
Huntsville, AL 35899
Campus Map

256.824.4551
beth.boswell@uah.edu

Biography

Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • Ph.D., Middle Tennessee State University, 2018
  • M.A., University of North Alabama 2010
  • B.A., Athens State University, 2007

Honors & Awards

  • Richard and Virginia Peck Award, for recognized distinctions in academics and promising scholarship for the future, the English department's highest honor, MTSU, 2017
  • William R. Wolfe Award for best English graduate student paper, "Morphing the Message: *Beowulf *in Film," MTSU, 2015

Affiliations

  • Modern Language Association
  • National Council of Teachers of English/Conference on College Composition and Communication
  • Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association in the South
  • Children's Literature Association

Recent Publications

  • "Challenging the Cinderella Identity in Marissa Myer's Cinder," presenter, Children's Literature Association national conference, Tampa, FL, June 22, 2017

  • "Making a Fan: Exploring the Up-Tick in Real Life Whodunnits," presenter and chair, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association in the South Annual Conference, Nashville, TN, Oct. 15, 2016

  • "Boobies and the Beast: Finding the Fairy Tale in E.L. James's Fifty Shades of Grey" Presented at "Reimagining Beauty and the Beast," a BIRTHA Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK, Sept. 7, 2016

  • "Stomp That Foot, Girl: Exploring the Method in Betty Draper Francis's Infantile Power Plays," Presented at "Mad Men: The Conference," Murfreesboro, TN, May 27, 2016.

  • "'Hi, I'm Beth' – Speed-Dating for Editors: Why Introduction Games are Critical for the College Classroom," Presented at The CUNY Games Festival 3.0: A Conference on Game-Based Learning in Higher Education, City University of New York Graduate Center, New York, NY, Jan. 22, 2016

  • "Lost in the Middle: Cal's Never-Ending Search for Identity in Jeffrey Eugenide's Middlesex" Presented at "Identity and Materialism: Reading the Space between Persons and Things," University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, April 10, 2015.