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Sylvia Bailey Shurbutt Sylvia Bailey Shurbutt received her Ph.D. from the University of Georgia in 1982 in British Literature and Linguistics. She currently teaches in the Department of English and Modern Languages at Shepherd University , where she is Director of the Appalachian Heritage Writer-in-Residence Project and the West Virginia New Writers Fiction Competition. Shurbutt also serves as the University Representative to and State Chair of the Advisory Council of Faculty in the state of West Virginia . Shurbutt's recent publications (2002-2004) include biographies/critical studies of Zelda Fitzgerald, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Flannery O'Connor for Scribner's American Writers series (Jay Parini, editor), as well as a study of the work of Margaret Atwood for the World Writers Series . Shurbutt has published in Women and Language, The Southern Literary Journal, Southern Humanities Review, Women's Studies Journal, Essays in Literature, Victorian Poetry , and a variety of other scholarly and interdisciplinary journals. Book publications include Reading/Writing Relationships (Kendall Hunt, 1986), the introduction to Caroline Norton's Lost and Saved (Scholars' Facsimiles and Reprints, 1989), and "Writing Lives and Telling Tales: Visions and Revisions" in Untying the Tongue: Gender, Power and the Word (Greenwood Press, 1998). Shurbutt is currently working on a critical study of several Appalachian writers, Voices from the Misty Mountains: Talking from the Fringe, a study of the work of Fred Chappell, Denise Giardina, Robert Morgan, Jayne Anne Phillips, and Sharyn McCrumb. |