Cambridge Scholars Publishing Florida Studies Review

This volume contains a variety of essays about Florida literature and history by scholars from across the state representing every kind of institution of higher learning, from community colleges to small liberal arts institutions to large universities. The essays in the first section, “Florida Studies”, focus on the rich literary, historical, and cultural traditions of the region. The contributions in “Literary and Cultural Studies” offer readings and analyses of diverse texts and critical lenses. The final section, Pedagogy, explores strategies for and challenges within institutions of higher learning in Florida. About the Author Allyson D. Marino, PhD, is an assistant professor of English at Saint Leo University, USA, where she teaches courses on Love and Desire in Literature, Caribbean Literature, and Critical Theory. Her research interests include women’s literature, environmental studies, and US multiethnic literature and postcolonial studies. Marcy L. Galbreath, PhD, is currently a Lecturer at the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Central Florida, USA. Her research focuses on agricultural rhetoric and environmental communications in oral, print, and digital genres, and how the literacies associated with these genres contribute to meaning-making within and between associated communities. Her digital project, Historical Agricultural News (ag-news.net), co-created with collaborators Amy Larner Giroux and Nathan Giroux, examines the spread of institutional ideas of agricultural progress through the genre of newspapers, and was awarded second place nationally in the 2016 NEH Chronicling America Data Challenge.