College of Humanities People
Brian McHale, Professor
Department of English: http://english.osu.edu/
Office Information
562 Denney Hall, 164 West 17th Avenue, Columbus, OH, 43210
Email: mchale.11@osu.edu
Phone: (614) 292-4676
Office Hours:
Autumn 2011: MW 1:30pm-3:00pm and by appointment.
562 Denney Hall, 164 West 17th Avenue, Columbus, OH, 43210
Email: mchale.11@osu.edu
Phone: (614) 292-4676
Office Hours:
Autumn 2011: MW 1:30pm-3:00pm and by appointment.
Education:
A.B., Brown University, 1974; D.Phil., English Language and Literature, Oxford University, 1979.
General Background:
Brian McHale is Distinguished Arts and Humanities Professor of English in the Ohio State University. McHale is a Rhodes Scholar (Rhode Island 1972), D Phil from Merton College, Oxford, and A.B. from Brown University. He has taught at Tel Aviv University, West Virginia University, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Freiburg (Germany), and the University of Canterbury (New Zealand), among other institutions. He is one of the founding members of Project Narrative at Ohio State, and current president (2010-11) of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP). The author of three books on postmodernist fiction and poetry –Postmodernist Fiction (1987), Constructing Postmodernism (1992), and The Obligation toward the Difficult Whole: Postmodernist Long Poems (2004) – he has also published many articles on modernism and postmodernism, narrative theory, and science fiction. He is co-editor, with Randall Stevenson, of the Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Literatures in English (2006); with David Herman and James Phelan, of Teaching Narrative Theory (2010); and, with Luc Herman and Inger Dalsgaard, of the Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon (forthcoming). He is currently co-editing with Joe Bray and Alison Gibbon the Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature.
Twentieth-Century British and American Literature
