Martha Regalis

NCSSM Faculty Member, 1986-1990, and  since 2001

M.A., Ph.D., Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA,  in English
Dissertation: "Murderous Historian: Henry Adams, Modernity, and the Problem of Subjectivity"
B.A., Clemson University, Clemson, SC, in English and Spanish 

Dr. Regalis was born in Upstate South Carolina and earned a B.A., with High Honor, in English and Spanish, with an equal concentration history, at Clemson University,  in Clemson, South Carolina. She earned an M.A. and a Ph.D.  in English Literature at LSU, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Her dissertation, "Murderous Historian: Henry Adams, Modernity, and the Problem of Subjectivity,"  dealt with constitutions of the self in the writings of the American historian Henry Adams. Dr. Regalis did post-graduate work in historiography, twentieth-century philosophy, and Renaissance and Reformation history at Northern Illinois University, in DeKalb, Illinois. She taught WRRD, American Literature, and English Literature at NCSSM before migrating in 1990 to the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in Aurora, Illinois, where she developed a three-year, cross-disciplinary  program that linked interdisciplinary courses in the humanities with  discipline-specific courses in the sciences through weekly seminars. Dr. Regalis returned to NCSSM in 2001, and has taught WECS, philosophy, British Literature, and American Studies ever since. She likes large, friendly dogs, Javanese cats, and people, politics, and books.