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Michael F Szalay

Associate Professor, English
School of Humanities

Co-Editor, "Post45" Book Series, Stanford University Press


Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University


M.A., University of Chicago


B.A., Williams College, 1990, English and History

Phone: (949) 824-3744
Fax: (949) 824-2916
Email: mszalay@uci.edu

University of California
348 Humanitites Instructional Building
Mail Code: 2650
Irvine, CA 92697


Research
Interests
Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture
   
Publications "'Eerie Serenity': A Response to John McClure" in Boundary 2 vol. 36, no. 2 (Summer 2009)
   
  "Modernism's History of the Dead" in A Concise Companion to American Fiction, 1900-1950, ed. Peter Stonely and Cindy Weinstein (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008).
   
  "The White Oriental," in Modern Language Quarterly 67.3 (Sept. 2006)
   
  Countercultural Capital: Essays on the Sixties from Some Who Weren’t There, A Special Issue of The Yale Journal of Criticism, edited with Sean McCann. 18.2 (Fall, 2005)
   
  "Do You Believe in Magic? Literary Thinking After the New Left," with Sean McCann, in Countercultural Capital, The Yale Journal of Criticism 18.2 (Fall 2005)
   
  "All the King's Men; or, The Primal Crime," Yale Journal of Criticism (Fall, 2002).
   
  New Deal Modernism: American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State. Duke University Press, 2000
   
  (and Introduction) Jack Balch, Lamps at High Noon, "Radical Novel Reconsidered" Series, ed. Alan Wald. Urbana: Illinois University Press, 2000
   
  "'Nothing More than Feelings': Generational Politics and the Authenticity of Alternative Culture." Michigan Quarterly Review (Fall, 1998): 843-59.
   
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Last updated 09/30/2009