About the Author
of this Website Dr. Kelly S.
Taylor is a retired college professor. She received her BFA in Acting
from UNC-Greensboro, her MA in Communication Studies with a concentration in
Performance Studies from UNC-Chapel Hill and her in Ph.D Communication Studies
also with a concentration in Performance Studies and with a minor in Theater
History Her dissertation was "The Rhetoric of Self-Fashioning in the Works of Anna Cora Mowatt." It is available in .pdf form here She has written a number of articles on Mowatt including the following which can be now be found online: "Exploiting the Medium: Anna Cora Mowatt's Creation of Self Through Performance" "Creation of a Public Persona in The Poetry of Anna Cora Mowatt" A link to Dr. Taylor's book, The Lady Actress is at the bottom of the page. Dr. Taylor is currently working on a new book about Mowatt's entanglement in the Walter Watts scandal. To contact her or follow her progress on social media click on any of the links below: Facebook: Anna Cora Mowatt Research Page |
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at LSU. She has taught at Westerm Piedmont Community College in Morganton, NC, University of Maine,
Orono, Maine, and University of North Texas, Denton, TX.