Soledad Caballero

Department: English
Email: scaballe@allegheny.edu
Office Phone: (814) 332-4329
Office Building: Oddfellows Building
Office Room: 215
Box #: 95

Professional Title/s

Professor

Faculty Credentials

B.A., Appalachian State University; M.A., Tufts University; Ph.D., Tufts University

Biographical Information

Biography

M. Soledad Caballero is Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) as well as co-chair of WGSS. Her work in travel narratives. interdisciplinarity, and gender studies. She is also a poet, and her book, I Was a Bell, was published by Red Hen Press in September 2021. Her second collection Flight Plan will be published by Red Hen Press in 2025.

Books

  • I Was a Bell, Red Hen Press, September 2021.
  • Graham, Maria Dundas. Journal of a Voyage to Brazil (1824) by Maria Dundas Graham. Editors M Soledad Caballero and Jenna Hayward, editors. Parlor Press, Travel Writing Series, Senior Editor Professor Jeanne Moskal, forthcoming 2009-2010.

Scholarly Essays (selected)

  • “Applying an Ethical Interdisciplinary, Collaborative Approach to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning,” co-author Dr. Aimee Knupsky, Ethics and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, editor Lisa M. Fedoruk, Springer, Fall 2022. 
  • “Capturing Confusion: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension,” co-author Dr. Aimee Knupsky, Reading across the Disciplines, editor Karen Manarin, Indiana University Press, May 2022.
  • “Some Powerful Rankling Passion”: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Emotion Regulation Strategies in Joanna Baillie’s Passion Plays, co-author Dr. Aimee Knupsky, special issue of Poetic Today: “Knowledge, Understanding, Well-Being: Cognitive Literary Studies,” editor Nancy Easterlin, August 2019.

Poems (selected)

  • "News of the Day," Poetry Northwest, September 2023
  • "Ode to Kody," Poetry Northwest, September 2023
  • "Field Note: Birds of Prey on the Highway," Poetry Northwest, September 2023.
  • “I Continue My Love Affair,” Finalist Tinderbox Journal Prize, December 2022
  • “Mapping Medusa, A List,” Tinderbox Journal, December 2022
  • “When We Won Blue Birds at the Aviary,” Slippery Elm, November 2022
  • “The Mirage,” Semi-Finalist winner for Nimrod, November 2022

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Office Hours

  • Mondays: 1:30–3:30pm
  • Tuesdays: 3:00–4:30pm
  • Wednesdays: 1:30–3:30pm
  • Thursday: None
  • Friday: None