Contact:
Dr. Nelljean M. Rice
Director, First-Year Experience nrice@coastal.edu or 349-2473
Nelljean
M. Rice, the Director of First-Year Experience, is also an Associate Professor
in the Department of English, Journalism, and Communication. She has taught
at Coastal since 1988. Her areas of specialty include Children's and Young
Adult literature, British and American poetry, Creative Non-Fiction, Asian
Literature in Translation, and First Year Writing classes. Additionally,
Dr. Rice helped establish the minor in Women's and Gender Studies, of
which she was the program director until 2005.
Dr Rice's latest publication is "Jack and the Beingstalk: Finally
(Mis)understanding the metaphor, or, the Katrina Effect" published
on the BABEL website.
BABEL is a group developed by members of the Southeastern Medieval Association
to discuss the conjunctions between Medieval and Modern Humanisms. Dr.
Rice's monograph, A New Matrix for Modernism: A Study of the Lives and
Poetry of Charlotte Mew and Anna Wickham was published by Routledge in
2003.