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Dr. Sylvia Bailey
Shurbutt came to Shepherd in 1987, having taught previously at Georgia
Southern University, after receiving her Ph.D. at the University of
Georgia in 1982. Dr. Shurbutt’s primary teaching and scholarly
interests are English pedagogy, 19th-century British literature,
linguistics, and Women’s and Appalachian studies, with her publications
and research projects focusing on the work of such writers as Christina
Rossetti, Jane Austen, Zelda Fitzgerald, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Robert
Morgan, and Denise Giardina. Dr. Shurbutt is particularly interested in
rediscovering those women writers lost from the traditional canon and
has devoted her energy to seeing them in print once again, as is the
case with her research of Victorian poet and novelist Caroline Sheridan
Norton. Dr. Shurbutt enjoys music, flowers, and visiting her daughter
who lives in New Zealand; she is an avid biker and hiker, and she enjoys
traveling, in particular guiding student travel study tours at Shepherd
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