MAGALI CORNIER MICHAEL
DEPARTMENT CHAIR
PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH

Office: College Hall 637C
Telephone: 412-396-5560
Email: michael@duq.edu

EDUCATION
B.A., University of Georgia
M.A., Emory University
Ph.D., Emory University

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Post-1945 British and American Literature
Feminist Literary Theory

COURSES TAUGHT
British Literature since 1945
American Literature since 1945
Women Writers and the Novel
Contemporary Ethinic Literature
Fiction Writing Workshop
Introduction to Fiction

RECENT SCHOLARSHIP
Books :

New Visions of Community in Contemporary American Fiction: Tan, Kingsolver, Castillo, Morrison . Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, December 2006.

Feminism and the Postmodern Impulse: Post-World War II Fiction . Albany : State University of New York Press, May 1996.

Book Chapters :

“Narrative Multiplicity in Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin.” In Recent Essays on Recent Atwood: Texts, Contexts, Intertexts. Ed. Theodore F. Sheckels and Paul Martin. Spotted Cow Press, forthcoming 2007/2008.

“Freedom Reconsidered: Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985).” In Women in Literature: Evaluating Gender Bias. Ed. Ellen Silber and Jerilyn Fisher. New York: Greenwood Press, 2003. 134-136.

" Woolf's Between the Acts and Lessing's The Golden Notebook: From Modern to Postmodern Subjectivity." In Woolf and Lessing: Breaking the Mold. Ed. Ruth Saxton and Jean Tobin. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. 39-56.

Journal Articles :

“ Re-Imagining Agency: Toni Morrison’s Paradise,” African American Review 36.4 (Winter 2002): 643-661.

"Materiality vs. Abstraction in D.M. Thomas's The White Hotel," Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 43.1(Fall 2001): 63-83.

“Rethinking History as Patchwork: The Case of Atwood’s Alias (continued) Grace,”Modern Fiction Studies 47.2 (Summer 2001): 421-447.

"Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus: An Engaged Feminism via Subversive Postmodern Strategies," Contemporary Literature 35.3 (Fall 1994): 492-521.

"The Political Paradox within Don DeLillo's Libra," Critique: Studiesin Contemporary Fiction 35.3 (Spring 1994): 146-156.

"‘Who is Sarah?’: A Critique of The French Lieutenant's Woman 's Feminism," Critique: Studies in Modern Fiction 28.4 (Summer 1987): 225-23.

Encyclopedia Article:

“Morrison, Toni (1931- ).” Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics: Censorship, Revolution, & Writing , Volume Two. Ed. M. Keith Booker. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005. 495-96.

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