MAGALI CORNIER MICHAEL
PROFESSOR
DEPARTMENT CHAIR
Office: College Hall 637C
Telephone: 412.396.5560
Email: michael@duq.edu
March 2012: Sabbatical
EDUCATION
B.A., University of Georgia
M.A., Emory University
Ph.D., Emory University
2011 recipient of the McAnulty College and Graduate School's
Faculty Excellence in Scholarship Award
RECENT SCHOLARSHIP
"Don DeLillo’s Falling Man: Countering Post-9/11 Narratives of Heroic Masculinity." In Memory in the Making: Mediations of 9/11 in Films, Fiction, and Comic Books, edited by Véronique Bragard, Christophe Dony, and Warren Rosenberg (forthcoming from McFarland Press, 2011).
"Narrative Multiplicity and the Construction of a Multi-layered Self in Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin." In Margaret Atwood: The Robber Bride, The Blind Assassin, and Oryx and Crake, edited by Brooks Bouson. New York: Continuum Press, 2010. 88-102.
"Arabian Nights in America: Hybrid Form and Identity in Diana Abu-Jaber’s Crescent." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (2010).
"Writing Fiction in the Post-9/11 World: McEwan’s Saturday." In From Solidarity to Schisms: 9/11 and After in Fiction and Film from Outside the U.S. from outside the U.S., edited by Cara Cilano. New York: Rodopi Press, 2009. 25-51.
"Telling History Other-Wise: Grace Nichols’ I Is a Long Memoried Woman." In Reclaiming Home, Remembering Motherhood, Rewriting History: African American and Afro-Caribbean Women’s Writing, edited by Marie Drews and Verena Theile. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009. 210-232.
"Foreword" to Amal Talaat Abdelrazek’s Contemporary Arab American Women Writers: Hyphenated Identities and Border Crossings. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2008.
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.
"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.
"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.
"Morrison, Toni (1931- )." Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics: Censorship, Revolution, & Writing , Volume Two. Ed. M. Keith Booker. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005. 495-96.
