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Associate Professor
of English Montgomery Hall 122 Personal and course website: http://faculty.smcm.edu/rpfeingold/ |
| Ruth Feingold joined the St. Mary’s faculty in 1999, after earning her B.A. from Oberlin College, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from The University of Chicago. Her major research centers on national identity in postcolonial nations, with a particular focus on New Zealand and Australia, South Asia, and contemporary multiethnic Britain. Recent essays of hers have been published in the collections Marvellous Codes: The Fiction of Margaret Mahy (2005) and A Companion to Australian Literature Since 1900 (2007), and are forthcoming in the journal Antipodes. She is currently working on a book about the Parker-Hulme case, a 1954 murder in New Zealand; in her analysis, she argues that the trial was not only about matricide, but also about authorship, pop music, lesbianism, and the Queen of England. Her teaching interests include contemporary postcolonial and British literature; literature by and about women; travel writing; literature and science; and children’s literature. |