Shannon N. Gilstrap is a native of Atlanta, GA, and is currently Associate Professor of English at the University of North Georgia. He received his Ph.D. in English Literature from Georgia State University with the dissertation "'A Revolution by Due Course of Law': Matthew Arnold, G.W.F. Hegel, and the State's Revolutionary Role." In addition to maintaining this site, he has been published in Victorian Review (39.1 Spring 2013), Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature (March 2012), The Victorian Web, and regularly presents on Matthew Arnold & Victorian literature at regional, national, and international conferences. He is an alumnus of The East-West Center's Asian Studies Development Program, housed at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa (2014). In his spare time, he enjoys hiking to waterfalls in north Georgia and spending time with his wife and their two dogs.
Please contact him at shannon.gilstrap@ung.edu.
Selected Publications:
Gilstrap, Shannon. “Introduction: ‘Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming’: Matthew Arnold at 200 Years.” Nineteenth-Century Prose, vol. 49, no. 2, Fall 2022, Guest Editor: Shannon N. Gilstrap, pgs. 1-18.
---. "A Mass of Typewriting: Count Dracula’s Subversive Counter-Assembly in Dracula’s Structure.” The Journal of Dracula Studies, 2020, pp. 73-93.
---. “The Victorian Era’s Influence on H.P. Lovecraft.” H.P. Lovecraft: A Critical Edition, edited by Leverett B. Butts, McFarland Press, 2018, pp. 223-232.
---. “Chapter 8.4: The Annotated Bibliography." Contribute a Verse: A Guide to First-Year Composition, edited by Tanya Long Bennett, University of North Georgia Press, 2015, pp. 150-153.
Read Full Texts & Excerpts from Selected Publications:
"'A Revolution by Due Course of Law': Matthew Arnold, G.W.F. Hegel, and the State's Revolutionary Role."
"Charting Culture: Cartography & National Identity in Matthew Arnold's 'Ordnance Maps'" An excerpt made available through Project Muse.
"Of Pets & People: Matthew Arnold's Pet Elegies & Jules Michelet's The People." An excerpt made available through Highbeam.
"Tailing the Scholar-Gypsy: Mapping Matthew Arnold's First North American Lecture Tour."
Review of: Neil McKenna's Fanny & Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England.
