Steve Bellomy, Ph.D.
Educational Background
Doctor of Philosophy, English. University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 2015
Master of Arts, English. College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, 2005
Bachelor of Arts, English. Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, 2002
Teaching Philosophy
I try to provide students with the space to confidently confront the challenges and at times uncertainties associated with reading and analyzing literature. I believe that we can learn a great deal from literature. At the same time, I encourage my students to recognize their own influences, as readers, on how, why, and in what ways literature matters.
Profile
Professional Background
I have had the good fortune of teaching at the college level for the last 20 years, the last ten of which have been at Clarke University. Before arriving at Clarke in 2016, I taught at both small and large universities in South Carolina and Virginia.
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Research Interests
-The legacy of Guy Fawkes Day in the United States
-The literary history of gunpowder
-The eco-gothic as a literary genre
-Maritime literature
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Courses Taught
-ENGL 380: Interpreting the Gothic
-ENGL 215: Literary Voices-British Authors
-ENGL 211: Environmental Literature
-ENGL 125: The Critical Mind
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Selected Publications
“‘All dripping in tangles green’: The Ecogothic Vision of Melville’s John Marr and Other Sailors With Some Sea-Pieces.” Gothic Melville, Ed. Jeffrey Weinstock and Monika Elbert (University of Wales Press, 2023)
“‘Blazing Effects’: The Fifth of November, Guy Fawkes, and the Rhetoric of Slave Conspiracy.” Cities and the Circulation of Culture in the Atlantic World: From Early Modern to Modernism. Ed. Leonard Von Morzé (Palgrave, 2017)
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Selected Presentations
“‘All dripping in tangles green’: The Ecogothic in Melville’s John Marr and Other Sailors with Some Sea-Pieces.” American Literature Association (ALA), Boston: May 2023
“‘The grave reigns everywhere in the profound depths’: Nineteenth-Century Sounding and the Ecogothic.” Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA), Washington, D.C.: March 2019
“Repatriation Through Discovery: Revisiting the 1605 Gunpowder Plot in Children’s Fourth of July Tales.” Nineteenth Century Studies Association (NCSA), Charleston, SC: February 2017
“The Invention of Gunpowder.” Society of Early Americanists (SEA), Savannah, GA: February 2013
“Infiltrating the Sea: The Ghost of Guy Fawkes and the American Maritime.” American Literature Association (ALA), Symposium on the Gothic, Savannah, GA: February 2013
“Old Combustibles: Melville, Guy Fawkes, and the ‘Unlikely’ Face of Protest.” Modern Language Association (MLA), Boston, MA: January 2013