Dr. Lacy Marschalk

Senior Lecturer, English

Contact

301 Sparkman Drive
Huntsville, AL 35899
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lacy.marschalk@uah.edu

Biography

Dr. Lacy Marschalk teaches a variety of courses in literature and creative writing, including mythology, speculative fiction, and worldbuilding in imaginative writing. Her specialties include fiction writing and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature, particularly the history of the novel and women’s travel writing. Her work has appeared in various creative and academic journals and collections, including Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830, and British Women, Travel and Empire, 1770-1850. She currently serves as Secretary on the Executive Board of the Southeastern Association for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SEASECS) and as editor of the SEASECS Gazette.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • Ph.D. English, Auburn University, 2014
  • M.A. Creative Writing (Fiction), Auburn University, May 2008
  • B.A. Creative Writing and English, Huntingdon College, May 2005 Magna cum laude with honors

Honors & Awards

  • Summer Dissertation Fellowship ($6000) 2013
  • Dissertation Research Grant ($5000) 2011
  • Outstanding Master's Student (Top 10 Master's Students in the Graduate School) 2008
  • Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award (Composition Category) 2008
  • Bellingrath Scholar 2001-2005
  • Willard D. Top Award (Top Graduating Senior Award for Scholarship, Achievement,
  • and Exceptional Contributions to the College) 2005
  • Joseph L. Dean Memorial Award (Top Graduating Student in English) 2005
  • Algie Hardwick Hill Prize in Creative Writing 2005

Recent Publications

  • L. Marschalk. “Teaching Eighteenth-Century Texts in Context: Strategies for the Online Classroom and Beyond.” XVIII New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century, vol. 20, 2023, pp. 61-79.

  • L. Marschalk. “Teaching Eliza Fay’s Original Letters from India (1817) through Classroom Editing.” ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830, vol. 12, no. 2, 2022. http://doi.org/10.5038/2157-7129.12.2.1309

  • L. Marschalk. “Creating a ‘more popular work’: The Lasting Influence of Maria Graham’s Journal of a Residence in India (1812).” British Women, Travel and Empire, 1770-1850, edited by Sutapa Dutta, Routledge, 2019, pp. 106-119.

  • A. Frost, L. Marschalk, D. Cook, and M. Manasco. “Prioritizing Academic Inquiry in the First-Year Experience: Information Literacy and Writing Studies in Collaboration.” Teaching Information Literacy and Writing Studies, Vol. 1: First-Year Composition Courses, edited by Grace Veach, Purdue University Press, 2018, pp. 61-70.

  • L. Marschalk. “’It’s like swimming upstream’: Using Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl to Alleviate Anxieties and Grow Writers.” Young Adult Literature in the Composition Classroom: Essays on Practical Applications, edited by Tamara Girardi and Abigail Scheg, McFarland, 2018, pp. 9-20.

  • L. Marschalk. “'What strikes the eye': The Forgotten India Sketches of Maria Graham.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, vol. 35, no. 2, 2016, pp. 513-520.

  • L. Marschalk, M. A. Porch, and P. Backscheider. “The Empty Decade? English Fiction in the 1730s.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction, vol. 26, no. 3, 2014, pp. 375-426.

  • L. Marschalk. “Toy Histories and Regional Flavor: The Effects of Cultural Tourism in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things.” Exploring Travel and Tourism: Essays on Journeys and Destinations, edited by Jennifer Erica Sweda, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012, pp. 147-165.

  • Reviews and Encyclopedia Entries

    “Social Formations and Literary Forms in Long Nineteenth-Century Travel Writing.” Review of Travel Writing, Visual Culture and Form, 1760-1900, edited by Mary Henes and Brian H. Murray. Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies, vol. 6, no. 3, 2016, pp. 156-158.

    “Anne Edgcumbe Dowriche Villiers.” A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen, Exemplary Lives and Memorable Acts, 1500-1650, edited by Anna Riehl Bertolet, Carole Levine, and Jo Eldridge Carney, Routledge, 2016, pp. 570-571.

    “Diana Primrose.” A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen, Exemplary Lives and Memorable Acts, 1500-1650. Eds. Anna Riehl Bertolet, Carole Levine, and Jo Eldridge Carney. Routledge, 2016. 591-592.

  • Creative Writing

    “Your College Alumni Magazine in the Time of COVID-19.” Humor. Greener Pastures Magazine (May 2021).

    Canoe Man.” Poem. Coldnoon: Travel Poetics (May 2016).

    “Black and White.” Fiction. Southpaw Journal (February 2012).

    “The Trappings of Mice.” Fiction. The Vehicle (February 2012).

    “Ice.” Fiction. Thoughtsmith (Spring 2011).

    “Pickle.” Fiction. First Stop Fiction (March 2011).

    “Happy, Free, Alive.” Fiction. The Citron Review (Spring 2011).

    “Hat Box.” Poem. The Prose-Poem Project (Spring 2011).

    “Skin Deep.” Fiction. Blue Crow Magazine (October 2010).