Dr. Russell McDonald
Associate Professor of English / Chair, Department of English and Interdisciplinary Studies / Director, University Honors Program
School:
Arts and Sciences
Department:
English and Interdisciplinary Studies
Office Location:
Jeffries Hall 218
Office Hours:
Fall 2023
- Wed, 11:00-12:20 (JH218)
- Thurs, 12:00-2:00 (JH218)
- Fri, 11:00-12:20 (JH218)
- And by appointment
Educational Background
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
- Ph.D., English Language and Literature, 2007
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
- M.A., English Language and Literature, 2002
- University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- B.A. in English (with distinction) and Classical Studies, 2001
Professional Experience
Georgian Court University
- Associate Professor of English, 2016-Present
- Assistant Professor of English, 2009-2016
- EN 430 – Senior Seminar (Topics: “Joyce, Modernism, and Myth”; “Yeats and Joyce”)
- EN 429 – Bookends: A Global Literature Seminar (Topic: “Love: Ancient, Modern, Strange”)
- EN 326 – Contemporary British Literature
- EN 325 – Modern British Literature
- EN 319 – Victorian Literature
- EN 302 – Shakespeare II
- EN 300 – Gateways to Literary Study
- EN 265 – Understanding Poetry
- EN 226 – Honors American Literature & Culture
- EN 221 – Honors Argument: Rhetoric & Research
- EN 217 – Women in Literature I (Topic: “Frankenstein‘s Legacy: Women’s Fantasy and Science Fiction”)
- EN 176 – British Literature II Since 1785: Songs and Stories of Innocence and Experience
- EN 115 – World Literature I
- EN 114 – The American Imagination: American Literature Since 1865
- EN 111 – Academic Writing & Research I
Research / Creativity Interest Area
- Modern and Contemporary British, Irish, and U.S. Literature
- Editorial Theory and Textual Studies
- Modernist Literary Collaborations Between Women and Men, Cambridge University Press, 2023 [Published October 2022]
- “Harnessing the Currents of Textual Fluidity”: Salman Rushdie’s Making of East, West.” Textual Cultures: Texts, Contexts, Interpretation 10.2 (Spring 2016): 76-106. [Published Fall 2018]
- “Pedestrian Perils on the Road to Irish Identity in Joyce and Bowen.” Irish Studies Review 23.4 (Nov. 2015): 385-406.
- “Revision and Competing Voices in D. H. Lawrence’s Collaborations with Women.” Textual Cultures: Texts, Contexts, Interpretation 4.1 (Spring 2009): 1-25.
- “Who Speaks for Fergus? Silence, Homophobia, and the Anxiety of Yeatsian Influence in Joyce.” Twentieth-Century Literature 51.4 (Winter 2005): 391-413. [Published Summer 2006]
- Co-editing (with Professor Jonathan Allison of the University of Kentucky) W. B. Yeats’s Mythologies for The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats series, published by Scribner. [under contract]
