Assistant Professor of English
Office Location: 408
Phone Number: (262) 472-5057
Email Address: mcguigaj@uww.edu

Degrees:                                                                                                                                                                                             B.A., St. John's (MN)                                                                                                                                                                            M.A., Minnesota-Duluth                                                                                                                                                                         Ph.D., Wisconsin (2002)

Areas of Teaching:                                                                                                                                                                           British Literature after 1800, especially British Modernism

Courses Taught:                                                                                                                                                                               Freshman English I & II, British Literature II, 1800- , British Modernism, Postwar British Literature

Select Presentations/Publications:
"On the Danger of Heroes: Black Hawk Down's Transformation from Narrative Journalism to Cinematic Spectacle," forthcoming in The Midwest Quarterly.
"Serving Joyve's Other Master: The Language of the Confessional in 'Nausicaa,'" Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference 10. Vanderbilt U. [Nov 2008]
"A Radical Romantic? The Avant-garde and E. E. Cummings's The Enormous Room, Reconsidered." 44 pp ms. forthcoming in Spring: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society 14-15, March 2008
"Totality and the Modernist Sublime." Seminar paper. Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference 9. U of Southern California. Nov 2007
Panel Chair, "Domestic Modernism." Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference 9. U of Southern California. Nov 2007
"'An Amputation of the World': Modernism & the Literary Utopias of Anarchism," 8th International Utopian Studies Society Convention. University of Plymouth, UK. July 2007
"Radically Avant-garde? The Strange History of E.E. Cumming's The Enormous Room, Reconsidered." Spring: The Journal of the E.E. Cummings Society 14-15 (Fall 2006): 94126.
"Modernism, Anarchism, and the Autonomy of Art, Artist, and Audience," The Body: Locating Autonomy, a panel presentation sponsored by the Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Sept 2006.                                      "From Quagmire to Epic: The Strange Cinematic Adaptation of Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down," Narrative: An International Conference. Carleton University (Ottawa, Ontario). April 2006
"The Unwitting Anarchism of Virginia Woolf," Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference 7. Loyola University Chicago. (also Panel Organizer) Nov 2005
"Back Underground: Hemingway and the End of the Spanish Civil War." Seminar Paper Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference 7. Loyola University Chicago. Nov 2005
"Resisting 'Mechanized Doom': For Whom the Bell Tolls as Anarchist, Primitivist Talisman against Modernity," Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia. Dec 2004
"American Writers' Congress." Dictionary of Literary Biography 303: American Radical and Reform Writers. Ed. Steven Rosendale. Boston: Gale Research Press, 2005. 371-5