Dr. Donelle Ruwe

Associate Professor

Department of English

Education

Ph.D.    1996   University of Notre Dame (British Romanticism)
M.A     1990    Boise State University (Creative Writing)
BA.      1986    Boise State University (English Education)

Dr. Donelle Ruwe joined the faculty at Northern Arizona University in 2003 after teaching at Eastern Illinois University and Fitchburg State College, Massachusetts.  She is a founding member of the 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writer’s Association and is very active in the Children’s Literature Association. She has edited a collection of essays for the Children’s Literature Association, Culturing the Child 1660-1830: Essays in Memory of Mitzi Myers (Scarecrow Press 2005) and is the editor of a special issue of Religion and Literature on Native American spirituality and special issue of Nineteenth-Century Contexts on women and Romanticism. Ruwe is also a published poet. She has received two chapbook awards: the Kinloch Rivers Award in 1999 from the Poetry Society of South Carolina, and the 2006 Camber Press Award for her chapbook Another Message You Miss the Point Of (see below). One of her poems, a retelling of the Scheherezade story from The 1001 Arabian Nights, was published in the 2001 Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror anthology. Her current research project is a study of British women poets who authored children’s literature in the Romantic period (1780-1830).

3 Sample Publications

Culturing the Child 1690-1914  (2005)                                        

            Utilizing new historicist, feminist, and cultural studies critiques, these essays by leading scholars provide

               new perspectives on early children's literary texts. This book, edited by Donelle Ruwe, is divided into four parts

                · Part 1 critiques the rise of children's literature throughout the eighteenth century

                · Part 2 focuses on the rise of the female educator

                · Part 3 explores the politics of pedagogy and the child

                · Part 4 presents the work of children's literature scholar Mitzi Myers (1939-2001)


 

                                          Culturing the Child sample chapters and ordering information

Re-Thinking Women's Romanticism

    A Special issue of  Nineteenth-Century Contexts 27.4 (2005)

     edited by Donelle Ruwe

      This special issue of Nineteenth-Century Contexts explores new directions in British women writers from the Romantic era, including

                working class authors,

                women science writers,

                religious writers

                autobiography

                Link to Special Issue          

Another Message You Miss the Point Of

    Winner of the Second Annual Camber Press Poetry Chapbook Prize, 2006

        "Something is almost always something else in these poems, as their meanings turn slowly beneath speech in tactile, shadowed ways. I keep returning to them, each time finding some other nuance, some previously hidden realization to admire in this fine poet's work."—Dick Allen, Final Judge

   Another Message You Miss the Point Of sample poems