Bonnie Shishko, Ph.D.

Biography

Dr. Bonnie Shishko teaches Literary Studies courses in the English Department and literature and first-year writing courses in the General Education program. Her teaching and research focus on Victorian literature and culture, feminist and queer theory, disability studies, and food writing. Her research on the intersection of food, gender, and sexuality in Victorian and contemporary women’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in the edited collections Elizabeth Robins Pennell: Critical Essays (Edinburgh University Press) and Teaching Food in Literature (MLA Press), as well as Studies in the Novel, Journal of Victorian Culture Online, and The Recipes Project. Dr. Shishko is currently at work on a new project, titled “Cripping the Victorian Kitchen: Communities of Care in Nineteenth-Century Invalid Cookbooks,” which explores constructions of (dis)ability in Victorian recipes.

Dr. Shishko is co-founder and director of QLIT: Queens Literary Studies Undergraduate Research Program. Housed in the Jim Rogers Summer Institute for Research and Creative Work, QLIT offers Queens English majors a unique opportunity to develop original Literary Studies research and present their work at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association conference.

Dr. Shishko serves on the Board of the Victorians Institute and recently served on the Senior Advisory Board for Girls on the Run Greater Charlotte.

Education

Ph.D. English, Indiana University, Bloomington
M.A. English, St. John’s University, Queens, NY
B.A. English, St. John’s University, Queens, NY