Mellissa Black, Ph.D.
Contact Information:
212 Willingham Hall
(256) 765-4678
Cources Taught:
- EN 099 Basic English
- EN 111 First-Year Composition I
- EN 112 First-Year Composition II
- EN 221 American Literature through Walt Whitman
- EN 222 American Literature from Walt Whitman to Present
Conference Presentations:
- “Virtually a Man: Defoe’s Georgic Propaganda and the Dream of Female Plantership.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Online, April 2025.
- “Sympathy of the Unsaid: Colonial Judgment in Richardson’s Pamela.” Association of College English Teachers of Alabama, Huntsville, Alabama, February 2025.
- “Imperial Breeding: Sexual Infrastructures and National Husbandry,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Online, April 2020.
- “Expence of Accommodation so reasonable”: Bernard Mandeville’s Economics of the Empire in A Modest Defence of Publick Stews, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Denver, CO, March 2019.
- “Habitually Loving,” contribution to a group review of Deidre Lynch’s Loving Literature (2015), Nineteenth Century Studies online, “Materiality,” Feb. 2016.
Certifications:
- UNI-Prep Institute May 2023
- TESOL and TEFL 250-Hour Diploma
Supplementary certification to teach English to language learners with further specializations in: teaching English online, teaching young learners, teaching adolescents, teaching adults, teaching advanced learners and beginners, teaching TOEFL, and teaching IELTS - TESOL and TEFL 120-Hour Certificate
Certification to teach English as a second or foreign language