220 Andruss Library
Phone: 570-389-4802
Email: nweyant@bloomu.edu
Associate Professor
Coordinator of Reference Services
Humanities Subject Specialist
Education:
BA, American University
MSLS, Wayne State University
MA in English Literature, Bucknell University
MA in Art History, Bloomsburg University
Nancy has been a librarian since 1968 and has been at Bloomsburg University since 1993. In addition to her work as a reference librarian, she has taught the history of books and libraries at the undergraduate level, the graduate level and for the Elderhostle program. Her scholarly interests in literature are focused on the Victorian period, with an emphasis on Elizabeth Gaskell. In art history, she principally has researched twentieth-century American women sculptors, especially, Nancy Cox-McCormack, Bashka Paeff and Anna Hyatt Huntington. She is the author of manuscript registers, book reviews, biographies and bibliographies. Her publications in literature include “A Decade of Creativity and Critical Reception: A May Sarton Bibliography” in That Great Sanity: Critical Essays on May Sarton (1992); “Between Friends: Seven Letters from Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings to Ethel Fairmont Snyder Beebe” in the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature (2000); Elizabeth Gaskell: An Annotated Bibliography of English Language Sources, 1976-1991 (1994); and Elizabeth Gaskell: An Annotated Guide to English Language Sources, 1992-2001 (2004). She is the author of the chronology chapter for the Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell, published in 2007 and profiled recent patterns of Gaskell scholarship at the 2007 Gaskell Society Conference in Canterbury. In addition to contributing the biography of “Nancy Cox Mc-Cormack” posted on the web site AskArt (http://www.askart.com/biography.asp) and producing a master list of the publicly-installed sculptures of Nancy Cox-McCormack for AskArt, she has provided the Smithsonian Institution with location information of Cox-McCormack’s sculptures for their “Inventory of American Paintings and Sculptures” and added some twenty-five sculptures to their list of her works. Most recently, she blended her interest in literature with that in art by writing an article, “From the Author to the Artist: A Letter to J. J. Lankes” that analyzes a letter from Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings to the American woodblock artist Julius John Lankes. She serves as faculty advisor for the Campus Girl Scouts, travels widely and is active in service organizations in her home town of Lewisburg.