Alvernia University
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Dr. Marc Edward DiPaolo

Assistant Professor of English and Communications
ALVERNIA COLLEGE
Reading, PA 19607
610-796-8419
marc.dipaolo@alvernia.edu

Ph.D. in English          Drew University
M.Phil in English        Drew University
M.A. in English          The College of Staten Island
(the City University of New York)
B.A. in English           Geneseo (the State University of New York)
  • Co-host of BCTV’s Cinema Chat (with John Nelka).
  • Former Journalist (The Staten Island Advance, New Jersey TechNews).
  • Participated in the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College

Teachers, “Adaptation and Revision: The Example of Great Expectations” (July 1 – 27, 2007, the University of California, Santa Cruz).

Areas of Study:
Adaptation Theory, Narratology, British Literature, British Television, Gender Studies, Gothic Fiction, Film, Journalism, Graphic Novels  & Sequential Art, Internet Culture, Italian-American Culture, Dante.

Publications:
Emma Adapted: Jane Austen’s Heroine From Book to Film. New York: Peter
Lang.  2007.

The Conscious Reader. (co-editor with Michael Shugrue, et al).
New York: Longman/Pearson Education, Inc.  2007.

“Wonder Woman as World War II Veteran, Camp Feminist Icon, and Sex
Symbol.”  The Amazing Transforming Superhero.  Edited by Terrence Wandtke. McFarland and Company. August, 2007.

Links to Artwork included in the Wonder Woman and (Upcoming) Batman Publications:

1. VS Superman
2. Onceand
3. Legends4
4. Sensation5
5. Carter
6. Ivy
7. The Bat Cave