MAGALI CORNIER MICHAEL
PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH



DEPARTMENT CHAIR

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

Fall 2008 Office Hours:
T 4:30-5:30

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

RECENT SCHOLARSHIP

“Telling History Other-Wise:  Grace Nichols’ I Is a Long Memoried
Woman.”  In African American and Afro-Caribbean Women’s Writing, edited by Marie Drews and Verena Theile.  Cambridge Scholars’ Press (forthcoming 2008/09).

“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.

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