Office Location: College Hall Room 203-B
Mailbox Location: Pyle Box: 1271
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Marta Wilkinson came to Wilmington College in 2006 having completed her PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of California at Santa Barbara. While at UCSB Marta taught courses not only in Comp Lit, but in Spanish and the Writing Program. Prior to her time at UCSB she also worked full-time as a high school teacher where her load included English, Spanish and French. This varied background and range of expertise inform her current range of World Literature courses which include engaging lower-division themes such as “The Hero: From Achilles to Zorro” or more theoretically framed upper division courses such as “Family & Nation.”
In addition to her courses in the English program, Marta also teaches many sections of Wilmington’s senior global cultures seminars (IDS425), focusing on art and literature as avenues into understanding culture and global relationships. Beyond the traditional classroom setting Marta has taken two groups of students abroad, first to France (2008), then to Italy (2010).
Marta is a southern California native whose educational experiences have had her move to France, to northern California and back south again, to Russia, and finally, to Ohio. She currently lives in Wilmington with her husband and two young daughters and the barkiest dog ever.
Awards
• SOCHE “Excellence in Teaching” Award, 2023 - 2024
• Wilmington College, Exemplary Course Award, Spring 2023
• Wilmington College, Learning Experience and Design Grant, Fall 2021
• Wilmington College, Exemplary Course Award, Spring 2021
• Ohio Magazine, “Excellence in Education” recognition. December 2016
• GCCCU, Excellence in Teaching Award, November 2016
• Wilmington College Student Government Association Teaching Excellence Award, May 2016
Recent publications
Articles
• “The Portable Private Space: Coaches, Cars, & Trains in Zola” IMPOST: A Journal of Creative and Critical Work, vol. 15, Fall 2021, pp. 52-63.
• “Violated Boundaries and Accomplice Spaces in Zola’s The Kill and Nana” JMMLA, Special Edition, Fall 2017. (Published Fall 2018)
• Foreword to Kinepoetics: Writing French Modernism through Dance (1830s-1930s) by Suzanne Braswell. Mellen, 2017.
Books
•Balzac’s Cane by Delphine de Girardin, translated with an introduction and translator’s note by Marta Wilkinson, Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures, Peter Lang, 2017.
• Antigone’s Daughters: Family, Gender, Expression In the Modern Novel. Peter Lang, 2008. Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature. Vol 97.
Conference Presentations
• NCSA, March 2024: “Knocking on Heaven’s Door: Faith, Ecstasy & Crossing Over in Zola’s The Dream”
• ACLA, June 2022: “Come On Baby Light My Fire: Faith, Jouissance, and the Experience of Ecstasy in Zola”
• MMLA, November 2018: “The Portable Private Space: Coaches, Cars, & Trains”
• MMLA, November 2017: “Passport and Panorama: La Canne de M. De Balzac by Delphine de Girardin, née Gay”