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Mara N. ScanlonAssociate Professor of English
English, Linguistics and Communication
mscanlon@umw.edu
(540) 654-1544
M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin at Madison
B.A., University of Virginia
Bakhtinian Theory
Genre Studies
Literature and Ethics
Asian-American Literature
Poetry and Poetics
Modern and Contemporary Literature
Mara Scanlon, Associate Professor of English, received a Ph.D. (1998) in 20th-century literature and an M.A. (1992) in English language and literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, after earning a B.A. (1991) in English from the University of Virginia. Her articles have been published in College Literature; LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory; Bucknell Review; World Literature Today; The Virginia Review of Asian Studies, and Asian American Novelists. Her professional work includes a collaborative, multi-university National Endowment for the Humanities Grant awarded for a project in the digital humanities called “Looking for Whitman: the Poetry of Place in Life and Work of Walt Whitman.”
Dr. Scanlon is a UMW delegate and recent co-president of the Virginia Humanities Conference and a member of the Modern Language Association, Modernist Studies Association, American Literature Association, American Studies Association, among others.In addition, she is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.