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Contact Info:

Susan Feiner, Director
94 Bedford Street
Portland, ME 04104
Voice: 207.780.4966
Fax: 207.780.5532
sffein@usm.maine.edu

Lauren Webster, Assistant to the Director
Voice: 207.780.4862
lwebster@usm.maine.edu

Home Department: English

Education

Duke University, PH.D., 1995, English
MA Duke 1992, English
MFA University of Alabama, 1987, Creative Writing
BA Spring Hill College, 1983, English and Political Science

Select Publications

Inside the Mouse: Work and Play at Disney World. Co-authored with
Karen Klugman, Shelton Waldrep, and Susan Willis. Duke University
Press, 1995.

"The Cowboy Businessman and 'The Course of Empire': Owen Wister's The
Virginian." Cultural Critique. 48 (2001): 98-128.

“‘The Face of America’: Race and Nation in Jessie Fauset’s There is
Confusion.” Yale Journal of Criticism. 12 (1999)1: 89-111

“American Racial Discourse, 1900-1930: George Schuyler’s Black No
More.” Novel 30 (1997) 2: 170-192.

“The Bluest Eye: Notes on History, Community, and Black Female
Subjectivity.” African American Review 27 (1993) 3: 421-431.

Teaching/Research Interests

19th and 20th Century American Literature and Culture
Popular Culture and Cultural Theory

Courses Taught

The Harlem Renaissance
American Modernism
American Poetry Since 1900
Novels by African American Women
The Earlier American Novel
Early 19th-Century American Literature and Culture
Mass Culture and Everyday Life
Introduction to Cultural Studies
Representing Race in Literature

Awards and Honors