Monmouth College

Marlo Belschner received her Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 2001 with specialties in early drama and culture, medieval literature, and literary theory.  She has presented academic papers on the role of pirates in Shakespeare, on the pageantry of the early modern scaffold, and on early modern women and New Historicism.  Her current scholarly interests focus on the function of pirates in forming and reflecting early  modern identity and on the status of masculinity in early modern drama and culture. She also is interested in women's status as authors and as Others in the early modern period.

Professor Belschner is the current coordinator of Monmouth's Women's Studies program. Thanks to the work of the previous coordinators, Carolyn Kirk, Stacy Cordery, and Trudi Peterson, the Women's Studies program and minor remain a vibrant presence on the Monmouth College campus.  Dr. Belschner has taught Introduction to Women's Studies as well as English/ Women's Studies courses on early modern women, early modern masculinity, and the works of Toni Morrison.  Popular culture representations of gender and sexuality studies are the most interesting aspects of Women's Studies for her. She greatly enjoys working with the other Women's Studies faculty and students who are interested in issues of importance to women.

• ENGL 110 Argument and Composition

• ENGL 101 Introduction to the Liberal Arts

• WOST 201 Introduction to Women's Studies

• ENGL 220 British Survey I

• ENGL 361/ 362 Shakespeare

• ENGL 350 Milton

• ENGL 350 Early Modern Masculinities

• ENGL 350 Literary Representations of Hell

• ENGL 400 The Novels of Toni Morrison

• ENGL 350 Early Modern Women

 

Department of English