About
Shelley teaches CSP105 in the Summer Bridge Scholars Program and has taught in the SBSP since 2011. Her full-time appointment is in the Sweetland Center for Writing, where she teaches in the Minor in Writing Program and the Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts. She is currently beginning her second year as Interim Faculty Director of Sweetland's Peer Writing Program. She is the host of Sweetland's Writer to Writer series and the faculty sponsor for the literary journal of the same name, run by Sweetland's Minor in Writing students. She earned her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in English (with a focus on dramatic literature) at the University of Kansas, and her Ph.D. in Theatre History & Performance Studies in the Performance as a Public Practice program at the University of Texas at Austin. In 2019, Shelley received a fellowship at UM's Humanities Institute.
Working with the Summer Bridge Program Scholars is among the highlights of every year for Shelley, who particularly enjoys helping scholars figure out what they think and find the voices and manners of communicating those ideas that most resonate for and empower them. She is a distance runner--currently training for the Chicago Marathon this October--a TV aficionado, a ghost story enthusiast, and a lover of cats.