Rate My Professor Melissa Brotton

Brotton's scholarly contributions include multiple annotated bibliographies on Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning published in Victorian Literature and Culture: for 1994 (2000), 1996 (1999), 1997 (2000), and 1998 (2001). She co-authored the article “In th’Immensity of Nature Lost!”: Vision, Nature, and the Metaphysical in the Landscape of Richard Lewis’s “A Journey from Patapsco to Annapolis” with Lora Geriguis and Sam McBride, appearing in Early American Literature in 2016. Additional publications feature “Two Unpublished Stanzas and a Source for an Early Poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning” (2019) and a review of Susan J. Wolfson’s Romantic Interactions: Social Being and the Turns of Literary Action (2012). Brotton edited the volume Ecotheology in the Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Divine in Nature. As a contributing editor for The Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, she has supported critical editions in Victorian studies. Through her teaching and leadership in the English Department, which offers B.A. programs in Literature & Writing and Secondary Teaching, as well as an M.A. in English, Brotton guides students in literature, writing, and interdisciplinary approaches.