L. Michelle Baker, Ph.D.

Adjunct Instructor, Shepherd University

Curriculum Vita

Dr. Baker recently defended a doctoral dissertation that developed a postmodern aesthetic based upon the symbol of Helen of Troy.  Read the proposal here.

In the fall of 2008, Dr. Baker presented a portion of the second chapter of her dissertation at Bridgewater College’s Conference on Christianity and Literature: The Poetry of Conflict and Reconciliation. Her paper was entitled “The War Within: Elizabeth Cook’s Achilles.”

The summer of ‘07 saw the publication of Professor Baker’s first journal article: “Creative Shipwrecks: Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Byron’s Don Juan” published in Romanticism on the Net. Her second article, an analysis of Christa Wolf’s Cassandra in light of Baudrillard’s theories of the simulacrum, is forthcoming in Philosophia: The Quarterly Journal of Israel.

March of ‘07, Professor Baker presented a paper at James Madison University's conference, 21st Century Literature: Now through History.  Her paper was titled, "'The great inescapable terror of her love':  Responses to the Classical Past in Yannis Ritsos' Monologues."  View power point presentation.  Read abstract.

Professor Baker spoke at the 2005 Annual T.S. Eliot Society Conference in St. Louis, Missouri on the trope of conversion in Eliot’s “Ash Wednesday.”

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