Michael T. Harris

Professor of English


Harris and family in Tanzania

 

  • has an essay “Pynchon’s Postcoloniality” in a new book, Thomas Pynchon: Reading From the Margins (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press). He has a second essay on Pynchon included in another forthcoming book, Teaching Approaches to The Crying of Lot 49 and Other Works by Thomas Pynchon (PMLA).
  • has a book Outsiders & Insiders: Perspectives of Third World Culture in British and Post-Colonial Fiction (New York: Peter Lang, 1994), which was named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book of 1994.
  • presented an essay, "Outside History: Relocation and Dislocation in Edna O'Brien's House of Splendid Isolation," at the 41st annual American Conference for Irish Studies held at the University of St. Thomas (Minneapolis campus), June 4-7, 2003.
  • has designed a new course, English 260: Irish Literature, which focuses on modern and contemporary Irish fiction, autobiography, drama, poetry, and film. This course is currently being offered at Central College for the first time.
  • has been involved in establishing a new major in Peace and Justice Studies at Central College. The Peace and Justice Studies program will likely become a new track in the International Studies major. Has traveled in Ireland and Northern Ireland to explore possible study abroad sites that might relate to the Peace and Justice Studies program.
  • attended a conference, “Pre-, Post-, and Neo-Colonialisms: Wole Soyinka and Contemporary Theatre,” at the University of Toronto, October 19-21, 2001. The conference was devoted to the work of the Nigerian playwright and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka.
  • received the David H. Crichton Memorial Award in 2002.
  • attended the 14th annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, "Back to Bloomsbury," at the Institute of English Studies, University of London, June 23-26, 2004.
  • is currently serving a three-year term on the peer review committee for the U.S. Fulbright Scholar Program for the Africa Region.  Served as a Fulbright Senior Lecturer at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania (East Africa) in 1989-90, teaching courses in Drama and the Development of the Novel.
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