Assistant Professor
Teaching at Kennesaw State since 2009
PhD 2009, Tufts University
Specializations: 20th century British literature, film, and queer theory
Courses Regularly Taught: • English 4570, 20th Century British Literature • Film 4200, Advanced Studies in Film • English 2174, British Literature from 1660 to the Present • Film 3220, Studies in Film • Film 3210, Film Theory and History from 1950 to the Present
Most Recent or Most Important Publications: • “Learning to Love (Again),” in Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare, ed. Madhavi Menon, Duke University Press 2011 (Series Q). • “Freudian Foreplay: Lesbian Failure and Freud’s Desire in ‘The Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexuality in a Woman,’” in Straight Writ Queer: Non-normative of Heterosexuality in Literature, ed. Richard Fantina, McFarland Press 2006.
Email: ashelden@kennesaw.edu
