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Department of English
Dr. Megan Obourn
Department of English
Office: Hartwell Hall, Rm 205 D
Phone: (585) 395-2034
Email: mobourn@brockport.edu
Education:
Ph.D., New York University (2006)
M.A., New York University (2000)
B.A., Tufts University (1998)
Research and Teaching Interests:
American Literature and Culture, 19th and 20th Century
Multi-ethnic Literatures of the United States
Gender and Sexuality
Critical Race Theory
Literary Interpretive Methods and Theory
Publications:
“Identity, Representation, and Distantiation in Arturo Islas’s La Mollie and the King of Tears,” American Literature, Volume 80, Number 1 (March 2008): 141-166.
“Audre Lorde: Trauma Theory and Liberal Multiculturalism,” MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Volume 30, Number 3 (Fall 2005): 219-45.
“Arturo Islas’s La Mollie and the King of Tears,” Hispanic American Literature Volume of The Encyclopedia of Ethnic American Literature. Ed. Luz Ramirez. Facts on File, 2008.
Academic Awards and Honors:
Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, New York University, 2005.
Tuttleton Dissertation Fellowship, Department of English, New York University, 2004.
Henry M. MacCracken Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, New York University, 2000-2004.
Courses Taught at Brockport:
American Women Writers
American Literature 1920-1945: Lead Up to Civil Rights
College Composition: Self Representation in Writing
American Literature Survey
American Literature After 1950
Critical Approaches to Literature
