Shannon Kelley
Biographic Data
| ID | 4426611 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shannon Kelley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shannon |
| FAMILY NAME | Kelley |
| SIGNATURE | KELLEY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fairfield University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Incest in the white gaze
Two versions of the same story of Adonis’s mother, Myrrha, were published within six years in the early seventeenth century. Epyllia by William Barksted (1607) and Henry Austin (1613) each retold Ovid’s etiology of myrrh. In the Metamorphoses , Myrrha seduces her biological father, Cinyras, the king of Cyprus, and eventually becomes a myrrh tree. While we have revisionist accounts of Myrrha in feminist histories of sexuality, her race and that of…
Connecting place and nature-based traditional and spiritual practices among American Indian and First Nation youth
For All Waters
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Arno River floods and the Cinquecento grotto at the Boboli garden
Although river water was vital to the textile industry and agrarian economy, Italian city‐states suffered catastrophic flooding during the sixteenth century. We know this since these natural disasters are well documented in chronicles and diaries, and preserved by flood markers on buildings throughout Florence and Rome. The Arno bisects Florence, which I argue commemorated frequent floods and inundations in one of the Medici's grottos, Bernardo B…
The King's Coral Body
This essay presents a natural history of coral, an animal that was once thought to be a plant that transformed into stone upon exposure to air. According to Ovid, Perseus propagated the first coral when he rested the Medusa's severed head on a bed of freshly harvested seaweed. When the seaweed petrified, nymphs gathered its seeds and filled the ocean with forests of coral (gorgonia). According to the lyrics of Ariel's second song ("of his bones a…
The King's Coral Body
This essay presents a natural history of coral, an animal that was once thought to be a plant that transformed into stone upon exposure to air. According to Ovid, Perseus propagated the first coral when he rested the Medusa's severed head on a bed of freshly harvested seaweed. When the seaweed petrified, nymphs gathered its seeds and filled the ocean with forests of coral (gorgonia). According to the lyrics of Ariel's second song ("of his bones a…
The King's Coral Body
This essay presents a natural history of coral, an animal that was once thought to be a plant that transformed into stone upon exposure to air. According to Ovid, Perseus propagated the first coral when he rested the Medusa's severed head on a bed of freshly harvested seaweed. When the seaweed petrified, nymphs gathered its seeds and filled the ocean with forests of coral (gorgonia). According to the lyrics of Ariel's second song ("of his bones a…
Arno River floods and the Cinquecento grotto at the Boboli garden
Although river water was vital to the textile industry and agrarian economy, Italian city‐states suffered catastrophic flooding during the sixteenth century. We know this since these natural disasters are well documented in chronicles and diaries, and preserved by flood markers on buildings throughout Florence and Rome. The Arno bisects Florence, which I argue commemorated frequent floods and inundations in one of the Medici's grottos, Bernardo B…
For All Waters
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Incest in the white gaze
Two versions of the same story of Adonis’s mother, Myrrha, were published within six years in the early seventeenth century. Epyllia by William Barksted (1607) and Henry Austin (1613) each retold Ovid’s etiology of myrrh. In the Metamorphoses , Myrrha seduces her biological father, Cinyras, the king of Cyprus, and eventually becomes a myrrh tree. While we have revisionist accounts of Myrrha in feminist histories of sexuality, her race and that of…
Connecting place and nature-based traditional and spiritual practices among American Indian and First Nation youth
Art (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Ancient history (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Biology (1 work) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (1 work)