Lina Geriguis

Lina Geriguis

Lina Geriguis received her Ph.D. in English from Claremont Graduate University. Her teaching expertise includes a variety of academic writing and literature courses, such as literary theory and criticism, critical thinking and composition, multicultural literatures of the U.S., American Realism & Naturalism, etc. Her essay on disability in the reception theories of Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome was selected for the Edith Wharton Society Award for a Beginning Scholar. Most recently, she received the Edith Wharton Society Award to conduct archival research at Yale and Stanford University libraries for her project on equity of expression, disability, and ecoliteracy in Edith Wharton’s rare editions. Her book chapter on innovative pedagogies for cultivating ecoliteracy and textual criticism is among her most recent publications. She has also authored an encyclopedic chapter on Emily Dickinson and social class and multiple articles on such topics as immigration, ethnic studies, literature in translation, travel literature, and literary adaptation. She has served as a book review editor for Pacific Coast Philology Journal since 2010 and Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal (2010-2020).

• Critical Thinking and Writing I

• “From the Archives: Equity of Expression, Disability, and Ecoliteracy in Edith Wharton’s Limited Editions of Ethan Frome” forthcoming in the Fall of 2023 in Edith Wharton Review. This research project was supported by a grant, awarded by the Edith Wharton Society for archival research conducted at the Beinecke Library, Yale University, and Stanford University Special Collections.
  
  
• “Ecoliteracy and Edith Wharton: The Ecosomatic Paradigm and the Poetics of Paratexts in Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome,” in Teaching Edith Wharton’s Major Novels and Short Fiction, edited by Ferda Asya, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, pp. 225-244.
  
  
• “Rich in Pathological Instances: Disability in the Early Reception Theory of Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome” Edith Wharton Review 33.1 (May 2017): 57-72. The unpublished version of this essay was the winner of the “Edith Wharton Society Prize for a Beginning Scholar in 2016.”
  
  
• “Ecology and Empire in Andrew Burnaby’s Travels Through the Middle Settlements in North America (1775)” Studies in Travel Writing 19.3 (Fall 2015): 187-203.
  
  
• “Ecosomatic and Ethnocultural Pathologies: Ethnicity, Disability and Capabilities in Meridel Le Sueur’s ‘Women on the Breadlines’ (1932)” Polish American Studies 71. 2. (Fall 2014): 19-42.
  
  
• “Emily Dickinson and Social Class” in All Things Emily Dickinson: An Encyclopedia of Emily Dickinson's World, edited by Wendy Martin, Greenwood Press, 2013, pp. 779-84.
  
  
• Contributor to the “Introduction” of Best of Times, Worst of Times: Contemporary American Short Stories from the New Gilded Age (New York UP, 2011) edited by Wendy Martin and Cecelia Tichi.
  
  
• “Beyond Domestic Grounds: Edith Wharton’s Shakespearean Glance in The Age of Innocence.” Pacific Coast Philology 45.1 (October 2010): 71-92.
  
  
• “W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk, Chapter 11.” The Explicator 68.2 (April 2010): 111-114.
  
  
• “Dickens’s Dombey and Son.” The Explicator 68.2 (April 2010): 104-106.
  
  
• “Discovering the Lithuanian Re-inscription of Robinson Crusoe” Lituanus 54:4 (December 2008): 51-75.