Stacy Neely

entered graduate program: fall '13

degree & major: B.A. in English from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo (2012); minor in Women and Gender Studies (2010)

areas of interest: Victorian Literature, contemporary fantasy romance, representations of madness in film & literature, representations of disability in film & literature, children’s literature, representation of women and gender in literature and film, chivalric romance, the modern novel

favorite authors: Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Jonathan Swift, Toni Morrison, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, George Eliot, Jane Austen, and Kate Chopin, just to name a few

favorite reads: “Elizabeth Packard,” The Harry Potter series, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” The Canterbury Tales, Spenser's “Faerie Queene,” More's “Utopia,” Swift’s “A Modest Proposal,” Alexander Pope’s “The Rape of the Lock,” Moll Flanders, Crane’s Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, "The Lady with the Dog" by Anton Chekhov, The Awakening, Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, Edgar Allen Poe (anything), Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Dark-Hunter series, Lora Leigh’s Breeds series, etc.