Etta Maureen Madden
Professor, Department of English
 Missouri State University

901 S. National Avenue, Springfield, Missouri 65897


Pummill Hall 3D 417-836-5422



 

Ph.D. University of New Hampshire
M.A. University of Virginia
B.A. Harding University

Dr. Madden teaches courses in American literature and cultural studies. Her research interests include autobiography, food studies, literacy theory, religion and literature, science and literature.  Click here to view Dr. Madden’s vita.

Selected Publications

  • “The Sensual and the Essential: Discourses of Diet and Nation, 1776-1850.” Work in progress.
  • Eating in Eden: Food in American Utopias. Ed. with Martha L. Finch. University of Nebraska, 2006.
  • Bodies of Life: Shaker Literature and Literacies. Greenwood Press, 1998.
  • “‘To Make a Figure’: Benjamin Rush’s Rhetorical Self-Construction and Scientific Authorship.” Early American Literature. 2006.
  • “Science in Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie (1827).” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers. Co-authored with Shelley R. Block. 2003.
  • “Cider as a Sign: Shifting Interpretations of Shaker Spirits and Spirituality.” Communal Societies. 2003.
  • “Mark Catesby’s Natural History and American Literary Studies.” Proceedings of the Early Ibero/Anglo Americanist Summit. http://www.mith2.umd.edu/summit/Proceedings/Madden.htm 2002.
  • “Quaker Elizabeth Ashbridge as ‘the spectacle and Discourse of the Company’: Metaphor, Synecdoche, and Synthesis.” Early American Literature. 1999.
  • “Sarah Wister.” Early American Women Writers, Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 200. Eds. Carla Mulford and Amy Winans, 1998.
  • “Resurrecting Life through Rhetorical Ritual: A Buried Value of the Puritan Funeral Sermon.” Early American Literature. 1991.

Courses Taught Recently

    • ENG 580 Gender Issues: Women’s Narratives of Healing
    • ENG 657 Sins and Sensationalism: Reading Early American Prose
    • ENG 580 & GST 497 Gender Issues: Food and Female Identity
    • ENG 558  Major American Authors: Sedgwick, Hawthorne, and Stowe
    • ENG 553 American Romantic Literature
    • GEP  397 CAPSTONE: Public & Private Identities in Biography and/or Autobiography
    • ENG 380  Introduction to Women’s Literature
    • ENG 350: Survey of American Literature I
    • ENG 330: American Authors in London

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