University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

Christine Flanagan, MFA

Christine Flanagan, MFA, is an Assistant Professor of English. In addition to developing travel-based coursework in the Humanities and courses in creative writing, Professor Flanagan’s teaching and scholarship reflects her varied interests and activities: writing fiction, nonfiction, and drama; scholarship on the short stories of Flannery O’Connor; and research on experiential and service learning. Professor Flanagan is a faculty member in the University Honors Program, as well as facutly advisor of The Elixir, University of the Sciences' literary journal.

Education

• M.F.A. Creative Writing, Emerson College. B.A. English, University of Rochester
• Studies in Irish Literature and History, Trinity College, Dublin

Prior Positions

• Faculty, New Jersey Governor’s School on the Environment, The Richard Stockton State College of New Jersey. 2000-Present
• Writer/staff, Honolulu Weekly newspaper. 1994-1998.

Teaching Honors

• 2009 Patricia Leahy Award for Teaching Innovation
• 2006 William F. Homiller Award for Teaching Excellence

Teaching Responsibilities

• IH 212 Intellectual Heritage-Nature
• HU 340 Nature and Environmental Literature
• EN 303 Playwriting
• EN 330 Introduction to Journalism
• HU 340 Creative Nonfiction
• EN 201 Introduction to Literature
• EN 312 Modern Drama and Theatre

Selected Recent Publications

Flanagan, Christine. "Departure." The Broad River Review (2009)

Flanagan, Christine. "The Superfund Gothic: Susanne Antonetta’s Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir. New Directions in Ecofeminist Literary Criticism. ed. Andrea Campbell Cambridge Scholars Press (2008)

Flanagan, Christine. "Pageant." Pisgah Review (2008)

Flanagan, Christine. "Return to Ithaca." Philadelphia Stories (2007). Republished in Philly Fiction II (2009) and performed live at Writing Aloud/Interact Theater (2008).

Flanagan, Christine. "Eve Doran." Burning Leaf (2005)

Flanagan, Christine. "Disappearances." The Drexel Online Journal (2001)

Plays

Unfurnished (2005) Riant Theatre/Baruch Performing Arts Center Winter Short Play Festival, The Riant Theatre (New York).

Chlamydia is not a Flower (2000) Northwest Playwright’s Guild (Portland, OR).

Recent Presentations

"East of Eden: Flannery O’Connor’s Moral and Ecological Vision." 2009 Poetics and Christianity Conference, “Reason, Fiction and Faith: An International Flannery O’Connor Conference” Rome, Italy.

"Ecocritical Anticipation in the Short Fiction of Flannery O’Connor." 2009 Northeast Modern Language Association. Boston, MA

"Writing the Region: Readings from Writers Rooted in Place." 2009 Northeast Modern Language Association. Boston, MA

"Designing the Nature Writing Course as Experiential Education." 2008 CCCC (Conference on College Composition and Communication) New Orleans, LA