Dr. Tracey Cummings

Education

• Ph.D., English (specializing in 19^th-century American literature), Lehigh University
• M.A., English, Lehigh University
• B.A., English, King’s College

Courses Developed

• America’s Haunted Texts
• Death in 19^th-Century American Literature and Culture
• Text and the City: Stories of NYC
• Hawthorne, Thoreau, and Alcott

Research Areas

• 19^th-century American literature

Articles Published

“’Upon a Scaffold Hye’: Absolon as Herod” in the collaborative article "Dramatic Intertextuality in the Miller's Tale: Chaucer's Use of Characters from Medieval Drama as Foils for John, Alisoun, Nicholas, and Absolon," Volume 3 (March 1996) of Chaucer Yearbook: A Journal of Late Medieval Studies

“The Importance of the Bee as Symbol in Thoreau’s Walden and Alcott’s Work.” Insects and Texts: Spinning Webs of Wonder.  Explora International Conference Proceedings.  Toulouse, France: Toulouse Natural History Museum, 2010. 280-90. Print.