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:
Winter 2010 office hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:30-1:00 and by appointment
562 Denney Hall, 164 West 17th Avenue, Columbus, OH, 43210
Email: mchale.11@osu.edu
Phone: (614) 292-4676
Office Hours:
Winter 2010 office hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:30-1:00 and by appointment
Education:
A.B., Brown University, 1974; D.Phil., English Language and Literature, Oxford University, 1979.
General Background:
Brian McHale is Distinguished Humanities Professor of English in the Ohio State University. McHale is a Rhodes Scholar (Rhode Island 1972), D Phil from Merton College, Oxford, and B.A. 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 was for many year associate editor, and later co-editor, of the journal Poetics Today. He is the author of Postmodernist Fiction (1987), Constructing Postmodernism (1992), and The Obligation toward the Difficult Whole (2004), as well as articles on free indirect discourse, mise en abyme, narrativity, modernist and postmodernist poetics, and science fiction. He is co-editor with Randall Stevenson of The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Literatures in English (2006).
Twentieth-Century British and American Literature
