

Dr. Stacey Dearing received her Ph.D. in early American literature from Purdue University in 2018; in addition, she has an M.A. in American literature from Auburn University (2012) and a B.A. in history and English from Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, MI (2009). Her research largely focuses on the medical humanities and material culture; she is particularly interested in how writing enables agency in narratives of illness, injury, and disability. She also enjoys teaching business writing, writing in the health and human sciences, and dystopian literature. Prior to arriving at Siena, she served as an instructor at Washtenaw Community College, with the Warrior-Scholar Project, and with the Alabama Prison Arts and Education Project. In the summer of 2019, she was the Erikson Scholar in Residence at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, MA.
Degree | Program | University |
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Ph.D. | American Literature | Purdue University |
M.A. | American Literature | Auburn University |
B.A. | History, English | Aquinas College |
My Professional Experience
Articles & Book Reviews
- Remembering Dorothy May Bradford's Death and Reframing 'Depression' in Colonial New England
Early American Literature
2020 - On Physical and Spiritual Recovery: Reconsidering the Role of Patients in Early American Restitution Narratives.
Journal of Medical Humanities
2019 - "Remember Me: Discursive Needlework and the Sewing Sampler of Patty Bartlett Sessions."
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought
2018
Awards & Distinctions
In November 2022, my Essay "Remembering Dorothy May Bradford's Death and Reframing 'Depression' in Colonial New England" received the 2021 Richard Beale Davis prize for the best essay published in Early American Literature in 2021 (all issues in Volume 56). Early American Literature is the official journal of the Society of Early Americanists and the Modern Language Association (MLA) Division of American Literature to 1830.
Category: Research
Early American Literature, 2022- I was nominated for the Siena College School of Liberal Arts Contingent Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching for the 2020-2021 Academic year. For this award, faculty must have taught at Siena for at least 3 years, and must be nominated by a colleague for consideration.
Category: Teaching
Siena College School of Liberal Arts, 2022 - I was nominated for the Siena College School of Liberal Arts Contingent Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching for the 2020-2021 Academic year. For this award, faculty must have taught at Siena for at least 3 years, and must be nominated by a colleague for consideration.
Category: Teaching
Siena College School of Liberal Arts, 2021 - "Viral Truth or Fake News?: Developing Information Literacy by Fact Checking Social Media." Part of WRIT 390/ENGL384 Rhetoric and Social Media (Spring 2020). Received an information literacy grant to develop a fact-checking unit for upper-level writing courses.
Category: Teaching
Siena College Standish Library, 2020 - Selected for the Erikson Scholar in Residence position at the Austen Riggs Center, Summer 2019
Category: Research
The Erikson Institute for Education and Research at the Austen Riggs Center, 2019 - October 2018 Society of Early Americanists' Junior Scholar of the Month
- https://www.societyofearlyamericanists.org/whats-new-announcements/sea-junior-scholar-of-the-month-for-october-stacey-dearing
Category: Teaching-Research-Service
Society of Early Americanists, 2018
Presentations
- Memories of Pain: Remembering Disease, Disability, and Injury in Experience Mayhew's Indian Converts
2021
Society of Early Americanists, Atlanta, Georgia - Memories of Pain: Remembering Disease, Disability, and Injury in Experience Mayhew's Indian Converts
2020
Society of Early Americanists' Special Topics Conference, Plymouth, United Kingdom - Rethinking Patient Agency in Puritan Illness Narratives
2020
Alden March Bioethics Institute, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York - 'A Melancholy-Spectacle': Mental Health in Colonial America
2019
Erikson Institute for Education and Learning, Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, Massachusetts - 'Beholding 'The Wilderness Shores': Remembering Dorothy May Bradford's Death and Reframing 'Depression' In Colonial New England
2019
Erikson Institute for Education and Learning, Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, Massachusetts - First-Generation College Student to PhD.
2019
Siena College, Loudonville, New York - Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Thoughts on The Medical Imagination
2019
Society of Early Americanists, Eugene, Oregon - Signing Grace: Disability, Accommodation, and Political Enfranchisement in Increase Mather's An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences
2018
Society of Early Americanists' Special Topics Conference, St. Louis, Missouri - Cotton Mather and Patient Agency: Medical Providentialism and the Active Role of Puritan Patients in Eighteenth-Century New England
2017
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Minneapolis, Minnesota - Theorizing Patient Agency through Medical Providentialism in Cotton Mather's The Angel of Bethesda
2017
Society of Early Americanists, Tulsa, Oklahoma - 'Of things invisible to mortal sight': Witnessing in Samson Agonistes
2015
The Conference on John Milton, Murfreesboro, Tennessee - Reflecting Upon Folly: Disease and Communitism in the Journal of Joseph Johnson
2015
Native American & Indigenous Studies Association, DC, District of Columbia - Engaging in Revolution: Reimagining Race, Identity & Historiography in Assassin's Creed III
2013
Society of Early Americanists, Savannah, Georgia - Remember Me: Discursive Needlework and the Sewing Sampler of Patty Bartlett Sessions
2012
South-East American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Decatur, Georgia - 'Tis Well Tis No Worse -- He Has I am Pretty Sure Not Given it Me': Hester Thrale and Female Venereal Disease in Eighteenth Century England
2011
South-East American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Winston-Salem, North Carolina