Gerald Siegel, Ph.D.
Meet Gerald Siegel
Gerald Siegel, Professor Emeritus of English at York College of PA, teaches literature courses, including introductory literature classes, American literature, and “The Literature of Terror.”
He served as a Fulbright Scholar in Yugoslavia, Belgium, and North Macedonia. His international teaching experience has included serving as a Fulbright Professor at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje (Faculty of Philology) in Skopje, North Macedonia; Southeast European University in Tetovo, North Macedonia; the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium; and as a visiting professor at FON University in Skopje.
His publications include a textbook, Business and Professional Writing: A Guide to the Process, and an anthology of 19th-century horror fiction, The Tale of Terror. He was the English editor for volumes of poetry by contemporary Macedonian authors Todor Chalevski and Mateja Matevski, and (with Jennifer Semple Siegel) for Boris Trajkovski, a biography by Jason Miko. He has also written and presented numerous articles and papers.
He is active in the Fulbright Association, the College English Association, and the Pennsylvania College English Association (PCEA). He is a past PCEA president and the current liaison to the national CEA. He is also a member of the MLA and NCTE.
- English, Ph.D.
George Washington University
- LIT200: Introduction to Literary and Textual Studies
- LIT281: American Literature and Identity I
- LIT282: American Literature and Identity II
- LIT281: American Literature and Identity I
- LIT391: The Literature of Terror
- Popular Literature
- American Literature
- International Education
- Pedagogy
- “Literature as Language: Using a Historical-Cultural Methodology in Teaching American Literature.” Proceedings of the International Applied Linguistics Conference: Practice in Language, Language in Practice (PLLP) (7 - 8 June 2013). Skopje, `Macedonia, 2014: 35-44.
- "Vampire Varieties: Contemporaneity in American Film Versions of Stoker’s Dracula.” Pennsylvania English 33/34, 2011-12: 92-107
- Business and Professional Writing: A Guide to the Process, 2nd ed. Dubuque, IA: Kendall-Hunt, 1994
- The Tale of Terror: Stories of Horror, Suspense and the Unknown from Nineteenth Century American Periodicals. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt, 1991.
- "Balkan Culture as Revealed in Legends of Vampires and Spirits: Folklore of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia," CEA Critic, 59:1 (Fall, 1996): 51-59.
- “Envisioning a Search for Free Texts: Using Open Educational Resources for Literature Anthologies.” Paper, national conference of the College English Association, New Orleans, LA, March 28, 2019.
- “The State of International Higher Education Today: A Conversation about Change, Reform, and Progress in Eastern Europe and Elsewhere.” Roundtable, Fulbright Association conference, Atlanta, GA, November 13, 2015
- “Bridging Gaps in Culture and Language: Macedonia’s Translation Project and The Poetry of Mateja Matevski.” Paper, international conference of the Fulbright Association, London, England, October 19, 2012.
- “Passages and Intersections: A Thematic Approach to Sebold’s The Lovely Bones.” Paper presented at annual conference of the NCTE, Philadelphia, PA, November 20, 2009.
- “Macedonian Responses to the Bologna Accords: A Fulbright Experience with Educational Reform.” Paper presented at international meeting of the Fulbright Association. Marrakech, Morocco, Nov. 3. 2006.
- College English Association
- Pennsylvania College English Association
- Fulbright Association