Dr. Sylvia Bailey Shurbutt

Professor of English; Appalachian Heritage WIR Project Director; Coordinator, English Education

2006 West Virginia Professor of the Year

Office: Knutti 223
Phone: 304-876-5207
E-Mail: sshurbut@shepherd.edu

Areas of Specialization

19th-century British Literature; History of English; English Education

Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Shurbutt's Home Page

Literary Footprints Travel Experience

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 studies, with her publications and research projects focusing on the work of such writers as Christina Rossetti, Matthew Arnold, Jane Austen, Margaret Drabble, and Zelda Fitzgerald. 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 involvement with Victorian poet and novelist Caroline Sheridan Norton. Dr. Shurbutt is an avid biker and hiker and enjoys traveling, in particular guiding student travel study tours at Shepherd University.