Shiela Pardee worked in Delaware museums and historic sites and the University of Delaware library before earning a Ph.D in English literature at the University of Delaware. After teaching undergraduate courses in writing and literature for nine years at Southeast Missouri State University, she currently resides in Eugene, Oregon. Shiela is married to Bill Mallonee; their family includes three (hers) plus two (his) children, and eight grandchildren. She is working on a historical novel set in the mid-atlantic colonies in the late 1600s.
Fiction:
“Branches and Bones.” Embark: A Literary Journal for Novelists. October, 2021. https://embarkliteraryjournal.com/issues/issue-15-october-2021/branches-and-bones-shiela-pardee/
“In Love Rebound.” Copperfield Review, May 2020. https://copperfieldreview.com/?m=202005
Other Publications
“Drifting and Foundering: Evolutionary Theory in Kurt Vonnegut’s Galápgos.” Shipwreck and Island Motifs in Literature and the Arts. Brigitte Le Juez and Olga Springer, Eds. Amsterdam: Brill | Rodopi, May 2015.
“Anthropology Across the Universe: Folk Societies in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut.” Critical Insights: Kurt Vonnegut. Robert T. Tally, Jr., Ed. Salem Press, 2013.
Review of Narrative Structures and the Language of Self by Matthew Clark. Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 44.2 (Fall 2011).
“Deconstructing Immortality and Decay in Faulkner’s A Fable.” Faulkner and Chopin. Hamblin, Robert W. and Christopher Rieger, eds. Cape Girardeau, MO: Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2010.
“Ann Patchett” and “Vernon God Little.” Contemporary Writers and their Works. Hamilton, Geoff and Brian Jones, Eds. Facts on File, 2010.
“The Professor’s Houses.” Companion to the American Short Story. Ed. Abby Werlock. Facts on File, Dec. 2009.
“Rites as Role Playing in Zora Neale Hurston’s Tell My Horse.” Women Writers: A Zine. August 2008. http://www.womenwriters.net/aug08/HurstonPardee.htm
“The Death of Artemio Cruz” and “Terra Nostra” in Companion to the World Novel, 1900 to the Present. Ed. Michael D. Sollars. Facts on File, Dec. 2007.
“The End of an Era in Delaware: The Practical Politics of Willard Saulsbury, Jr.” Co-authored with Gregory S. Franseth and L. Rebecca Johnson Melvin. Collections XI (2003): 1-27
“Psyche’s Task: Virginia Woolf Responds to James Frazer.” Virginia Woolf Turning the Centuries: Selected Papers from the Ninth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf. NY: Pace UP, 2000.