J. Michael Duvall, Assistant Professor
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| - 19th & early 20th century American literature and culture - American literary regionalism, realism, and naturalism - Critical and cultural theory - Writing Across the Curriculum |
Office: 22A Glebe St. #103 (843) 953-4833 duvalljm {at} cofc.edu |
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Profile Dr. Duvall completed his Ph.D. in American literature at the University of Maryland in 2003. He came to the College of Charleston in 2005 from Georgia State University, where he served as the Associate Director of the Writing Across the Curriculum program and taught in the Department of English. Dr. Duvall specializes in American literature from the 19th century, with a focus on late-19th-century American fiction. |
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Recent Publications, Presentations, and Conferences "Teaching American Regionalim/Local Color." Panel Organizer and Chair. American Literature Association Convention. Boston. May 2007. "'Suddenly and Shockingly Black': The Atavistic Child in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century American Fiction." Co-authored with Julie Cary Nerad (Morgan State University) African American Review 41.1 (Spring 2007). “The Futile and the Dingy: Wasting and Being Wasted in The House of Mirth,” in Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors: Edith Wharton and Material Culture. Ed. Gary Totten. University of Alabama Press, 2007. "Processes of Elimination: Progressive-Era Hygienic Ideology, Waste, and Upton Sinclair's The Jungle." American Studies 43.3 (2002).
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