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Mark McGurl is an American literary critic specializing in 20th century American literature. He is an Associate Professor of English at UCLA.[1]
[edit] Background
McGurl received his B.A. from Harvard University and and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Johns Hopkins University. He has also worked as a journalist for The New York Times and The New York Review of Books.
[edit] Publications
- The Program Era: Postwar Fiction in the System of Higher Education forthcoming from Harvard University Press
- The Cambridge Introduction to Modern American Fiction, 1900-1940 (in progress)[2]
- The Novel Art: Elevations of American Fiction after Henry James, Princeton University Press (2001)[3]
[edit] Articles
- "Understanding Iowa: Flannery O'Connor B.A., M.F.A." American Literary History, Summer 2007
- "Learning from Little Tree: The Political Education of the Counterculture" Yale Journal of Criticism, Fall 2005
- "The Program Era: Pluralisms of Postwar American Fiction" Critical Inquiry, Fall 2005
- "Social Geometries: Taking Place in Henry James" Representations, 68, Autumn 1999, 59-83.
- "Making 'Literature' of It: Hammett and High Culture" American Literary History, 9.4, Winter 1997, 702-717.
- Making It Big: Picturing the Radio Age in King Kong. Critical Inquiry, Spring 1996.
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