Dr. Christiana Salah joined Hope College in 2017 as an assistant professor of English, with a focus on British literature of the 19th century and beyond.

Areas of Expertise

In addition to British literature, Dr. Salah has secondary specialties in children's literature and film adaptation studies. She is developing courses in all these areas, as well as a Cultural Heritage course on the intersection of gender and disability, a topic often explored in her scholarship.

Education

• Ph.D., English, University of Connecticut, 2016
• M.A., English, University of Connecticut, 2010
• M.F.A., creative writing (fiction), Emerson College, 2005
• B.A., English and creative writing, Colby College, 2003

Honors and Awards

• Humanities Institute Fellowship, University of Connecticut, 2015-16
• Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University of Connecticut, August 2013.
• Outstanding Predoc Award, University of Connecticut, 2008-2011.

Selected Publications

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• “Reimagining Revolution: Later Lives of the Narrative of Joseph Plumb Martin in Children’s Literature,”Children’s Literature43, 2015
• “Girls in Bonds: Prehensile Place and the Domestic Gothic in L.M. Montgomery’s Short Fiction,”Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature32.1, spring 2013
• “‘This picture always haunted me’: Dramatic Adaptations of The Woman in White,”Journal of Neo-Victorian Studies3.2, 2010

Book Chapters

• “A Ministry of Plum Puffs: Cooking as a Path to Spiritual Maturity in L. M. Montgomery's ‘Anne’ Books,”100 Years of Anne with an ‘E’: The Centennial Study of Anne of Green Gables, ed. Holly Blackford, University of Calgary Press, 2009

Public Scholarship

• “The Book Trailer and the Imagination: Selling Children’s Fantasy Fiction on YouTube,”Inis Magazine10 May 2011