Senior Lecturer
Contact
100 Bay State Road
scordner@bu.edu
Education
B.A. Smith College (English Literature)
M.A. Columbia University (English and Comparative Literature)
Ph.D. Boston University (English Literature)
Bio
Sheila Cordner’s passion is to share her love of the classics with a broad audience. She has written a book on nineteenth-century authors’ innovative ideas about education (Education in Nineteenth-Century British Literature: Exclusion as Innovation) and has presented her research at national and international conferences. She is also the author of a children’s picture book (Who’s Hiding in This Book? Meet Ten Classic Authors) that introduces young children to a diverse range of authors.