Ph.D., English, University of California, Riverside
M.A., English, Arizona State University
B.A., English, emphasis on creative writing, University of Wisconsin—Madison

Nowell Marshall specializes in critical theory, Romantic and Gothic literature, and the history of gender, sexuality, and emotion. His book Romanticism, Gender, and Violence: Blake to George Sodini (Bucknell University Press, 2013) theorizes the social and psychological causes of depression and violence in people who over invest in gender norms.  He is currently writing another book titled “Gothic Whiteness,” which theorizes the relationship between excessive whiteness, gender, sexuality, and monstrosity, spanning from late 18th-century British literature through Romantic and Victorian texts to contemporary American Gothic authors such as Anne Rice.

He teaches the gateway theory survey for English majors (ENG 240), upper-division literature courses in 19th- and 20th-century literature (American post-1900, British 1780-1900), core literature courses for non-majors (ENG 214 & ENG 220), occasional courses through the Gender and Sexuality Studies and American Studies programs, and courses in the composition sequence. He has recently developed ENG 375 Literature and Sexuality, a new course for majors, which is offered across a variety of periods.

Courses

• ENG 375 Literature and Sexuality
• ENG 356 The Literary History of Sexuality
• ENG 353 Contemporary (Postmodern) American Literature
• ENG 352 20th-Century American Literature
• ENG 345 Romantic Literature, 1780-1830
• ENG 240 Methods of Literary Analysis
• ENG 220 Hidden Worlds: Literature, Society, and Escapism
• ENG 214 Monsters in Literature: Romantic Monstrosity and Its Legacy
• GND 400 The Literature of AIDS
• GND 300 Feminist Literary Criticism
• AMS 214 American Gothic
• CMP 125 Research Writing
• CMP 120 Expository Writing