People
Faculty
Diana Royer
Titles
- Professor
- M.U. Hamilton Coordinator of English
Education
- Ph.D., English, Temple University, 1989
- M.A., English, Temple University, 1986
- B.A., English, Mary Washington College, 1981
Teaching Interests
- 19th century American literature
- Modern American literature
- Modern British literature
Research Interests
- Virginia Woolf
- Global feminism
- Thanatology
- Film noir
Selected Publications
- The Spectacle of Isolation in Horror Films: Dark Parades, with Carl Royer. The Haworth Press, 2005.
- A Critical Study of the Works of Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian Writer and Activist. The Edwin Mellen Press, 2001.
- Selling the Indian: Commercializing and Appropriating American Indian Cultures. Co-edited with Carter Jones Meyer. The University of Arizona Press, 2001.
- Breaking Boundaries: New Perspectives on Regional Writing. Co-edited with Sherrie A. Inness. University of Iowa Press, 1997
- “Cultural Concern with Death in Literature.” Handbook of Death and Dying. Vol. 2. The Response to Death. Sage Publications, 2003. pp. 998-1007.
- “Remaking Virginia: A Caution for Readers.” Virginia Woolf and Communities. Ed. Jeannette McVickler and Laura Davis. Pace University Press, 1999. pp. 187-192
- “Puritan Constructs and Nineteenth-Century politics: Allegory, Rhetoric and Law in Three Hawthorne Tales.” Worldmaking. Peter Lang, 1996. pp. 211-240.
- “Revisiting College Composition within a Local Culture of Writing, ” With Moira Miller, Meredith Love, Rhoda Cairns, Mary Jean Corbett, Jennie Dautermann, and Parag Budhecha. Writing Program Administration 26.3 (2003): pp.28-48.
- “A Tradition Should be More than its Symbols: Native American Spiritual Items and the Non-Native.” The American Journal of Semiotics 12.3-4 (1998): pp.65-80.
Web Publications
- “Virginia Woolf and First-Year Composition.”
Virginia Woolf Across the Generations: An Electronic Publication.
Ed. Eileen barrett and Merry Pawlowski. 2003
http://www.csub.edu/woolf_center/
Work in Progress
Dr. Royer is currently working on a series of conference papers on film noir.