Mark Celeste, Ph.D.
Mark Celeste, Ph.D.
Elliott Assistant Professor of English, Hampden-Sydney College (2024-present)
Assistant Professor of English, Hampden-Sydney College (2022-2024)
Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Rhetoric, and Writing, Berry College (2020-22)
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Program in Writing and Communication, Rice University (2019-20)
Adjunct Instructor, University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown (2012-13)
Instructor, Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth Online (2012-13)
Ph.D., English, Rice University (2019)
Graduate Certificate in the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Rice University (2019)
M.A., English, Rice University (2017)
M.A., English, Syracuse University (2012)
B.A., English, summa cum laude, The Pennsylvania State University (2009)
Music Technology minor, The Pennsylvania State University (2009)
“Prosthetic Networks: Sea Shanties and the Maritime Forms of the Victorian Novel,” Victorian Literature and Culture 54, 1 (Spring 2026): 32-61.
“Narrative Horizons: Deliberate Derangement in Oceanic Climate Fiction,” Future Humanities 4, 1 (May 2026): e70025.
“Victorianism without Victorianists: Teaching Nineteenth-Century British Literature to Nonmajors,” Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature 147 (Summer 2025): 110-124.
“Oceanic,” in “Keywords Redux,” ed. Rachel Ablow and Daniel Hack, special issue, Victorian Literature and Culture (Fall 2023): 467-470.
“Visualizing Mutuality: Teaching / Networks in Our Mutual Friend,” Victorians Institute Journal 49 (2022): 166-97.
“The ‘bond of the sea’: Conrad, Coal, and Entropy,” in “The Green Issue,” ed. Brianna Beehler, Grace Franklin, and Devin Griffiths, special issue, Nineteenth-Century Contexts: An Interdisciplinary Journal 42, 5 (2020 [published 2021]): 509-22.
“Metonymic Chains: Shipwreck, Slavery, and Networks in Villette,” in “The Brontës and Critical Interventions in Victorian Studies,” ed. Lauren Hoffer and Elizabeth Meadows, special issue, Victorian Review 42, 2 (Fall 2016 [published Fall 2017]): 343-60.
“You Say You Want a Revolution: Dialectical Soundscapes in Gaskell’s North and South,” The Gaskell Journal 26 (2012): 18-35.
“Pedagogy,” forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook to Victorian Popular Fictions (Oxford Univ. Press, under contract for 2028-29).
“Peer Review, Revisited: Graduate Writing Groups,” in Making the Grade: Reimagining the Graduate Seminar Essay in Literary Studies, ed. Kevin A. Morrison (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021), pp. 99-113.
Introduction, coauthored with Kevin A. Morrison, to “The Global / Oceanic / Nineteenth Century,” ed. Celeste and Morrison, special issue, Global Nineteenth-Century Studies 5, 1 (May 2026): 1-7.
Review of Haunting Ecologies: Victorian Conceptions of Water, by Ursula Kluwick (Univ. of Virginia Press, 2024), Nineteenth-Century Contexts 46, 5 (Oct. 2024).
Review of Reading and Mapping Fiction: Spatialising the Literary Text, by Sally Bushell (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2020), Global Nineteenth-Century Studies 1, 1 (July 2022): 123-5.
“Dungeons & Dragons & Graduate School,” The Chronicle of Higher Education (6 Nov. 2017).
2026 Walter M. Bortz Mini-Award for integrating technology into teaching
2025 inducted into the Lambda Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa
2024-present William W. Elliott Professorship, Hampden-Sydney College
2023 inducted into the Alpha Alpha Omicron chapter of Sigma Tau Delta
2020–21 diversity infusion stipend, including tuition for Cornell University’s “Teaching and Learning in the Diverse Classroom”
course, Center for Teaching Excellence and Faculty Development, Berry College
2018–19 Graduate Teaching Award for Independent Instruction, Center for Teaching Excellence, Rice University
2018–19 dissertation completion fellowship, Department of English, Rice University
2017 Marilyn Marrs Gillet International Travel Fellowship, Humanities Research Center, Rice University
2017 Margaret C. Ostrum Summer Research Grant, Department of English, Rice University
2017 research travel grant, Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Rice University
2015–16 Fondren Library Research Award, Friends of Fondren Library, Rice University
2014–19 Diana Hobby Editorial Fellowship, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900
100-level literature
Global Literatures in English
Sea Stories
200-level literature
British Literature Survey: Bodies of Ideas / Ideas of Bodies
British Literature Survey: (Re)reading the British Literary Canon
Science Fiction
World Literature: Postcolonial Voices
200-level interdisciplinary honors study
Climate Facts, Climate Fictions
300-level literature
Literature and the Environment: Oceanic Reading
Oceanic Mobilities; or, Getting Lost in the Long Eighteenth Century
Novels and Networks in the Long Nineteenth Century
Victorian Transformations: Evolution, Energy, Exhaustion
400-level literature
Capstone Seminar: The Blue Humanities
first-year rhetoric, writing, and communication
Digital Divides: Technology and Society
Modern Castaways: In the Wake of Globalization
Writing against Empire: Postcolonial Voices
Writing / Networks: Composition, Community, and Connectivity
directed readings
Keywords in Feminist Theory
Women's Archetypes in Nineteenth-Century British Literature