Pamela Siska has been with MIT's Writing and Communication Center since 1993, and she was a contributor to the MIT-authored
The Mayfield Handbook of Technical & Scientific Writing. For the past ten years, she has also taught graduate writing classes for MIT's Supply Chain Management program. Pamela holds an M.A. in English from Boston University and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Pretoria. She has published articles on medieval and Victorian literature, but her area of specialization is Romanticism. Her chapter on Mary Shelley and material objects appears in
Material Women, 1750–1950: Consuming Desires and Collecting Practices (Ashgate, 2009), and her dissertation explores the letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley.
