Matthew J. C. Cella is a professor of English and the director of the Interdisciplinary Minor Program in Disability Studies at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Bad Land Pastoralism in Great Plains Fiction (University of Iowa 2010) and editor of Disability and the Environment in American Literature: Toward an Ecosomatic Paradigm (Lexington, 2016). His research has been published in a range of journals, including ISLE, Journal of Rural Studies, Great Plains Quarterly, and Western American Literature.