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Susan Farrell

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- Contemporary American fiction
- Women writers
- Literature of the Vietnam War
- Postmodernism/gender studies

  Office: 26 Glebe Street #205
(843) 953-5785
farrells {at} cofc.edu
Personal website: www.cofc.edu/~farrells

Profile

Susan Farrell earned her Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin in 1993. She came to the College of Charleston that same year, where she teaches courses in American literature, contemporary fiction, women's studies, and composition. She recently finished a book on the life and work of Kurt Vonnegut and is working on a book about Vietnam War writer Tim O'Brien.

Recent Publications, Presentations, Conferences, and Readings

"The Labyrinth of Myth and Gender in Tim O?Brien?s Going After Cacciato". Accepted for publication in Thirty Years After: New Essays on Vietnam War Literature, Film, and Art. Ed. Mark Heberle. Newcastle, England: Cambridge Scholars Press, Forthcoming.

A Critical Companion to Kurt Vonnegut. New York: Facts on File. In Production, Forthcoming September, 2008.

"Tim O'Brien and Gender: A Defense of The Things They Carried." The CEA Critic: An Official Journal of the College English Association 66.1 (Fall 2003): 1-21.

Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres: A Reader's Guide. Continuum Contemporaries Series. New York: Continuum, 2001.

 

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