Teacher+Bio

 Ms. DeFurio is originally from Tampa, Florida. She attended the Great Books program at Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, California. There she earned a BA in Liberal Arts with double distinction for her thesis and defense that explored the intersections of scientific inquiry and literary form in George Eliot's //Middlemarch//. She earned a MA in English from Villanova University with a thesis entitled, "Milton's Indeterminate Theodicy: Will, Grace, and Cause in //Paradise Lost//". Ms. DeFurio has presented her critical writings at conferences at the University of Virginia and the University of Maryland. She has also served as a supplementary editor to books and articles published by Oxford University Press, Palgrave Press and "Studies in English Literature" among others. In 2008, her essay, "“Salvation in a False Direction”: How Domestic Materiality Reconfigures the Victorian Family", was published by //Concept//, an interdisciplinary journal. She is currently pursuing a Masters of Education in Secondary Education with Special Education certification at Chestnut Hill College.