My primary interest has always been  19th century British poetry and prose, with a special focus on historians and historical novelists. I recently edited a reference book on late Victorian and Edwardian short fiction.

Most of my research involves ways to understand writing and improve the teaching of writing.  This led to a book I co-edited on student self-assessment and also to my current project The Elephant in the Classroom: Race And Writing, a book I am editing on African American students and writing instruction that grew out of my work with Dr. Dorothy Perry Thompson.  With my sister, the sculptor Ruth Ann Bowman, I exhibited my poems in a show entitled Memories We Keep, at Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan in July 2005.

My primary field of interest is twentieth century American literature with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender in the South.  I am also drawn to psychoanalytical theory and recently finished my dissertation, which is a Freudian/Lacanian reading of works by William Faulkner and Toni Morrison.

On sabbatical, 2008-2009

My research interests are broad and varied but primarily include Renaissance literature, drama of almost any historical period, and critical theory (literary and rhetorical).  I also teach a wide range of courses from Shakespeare and Elizabethan literature to the British novel, as well as freshman writing and technical writing. I am working on a book about Christopher Marlowe's play  Doctor Faustus and on an article about Ben Jonson.

My special interests are 19th and 20th century British literature, the short story, and literary theory, and I teach courses in all of these areas as well as in Southern literature, world literature, and advanced composition. I am currently working on an artilce about John Clare's poetry, Wordsworth's "Lucy" poems, and Mary Wollstonecraft's fiction.

On leave, fall 2008
 

On leave, 2008-2009

I have always focused on 20th century American and British literature, even though my teaching interests include literary theory and grammar. In very recent years, my scholarly work has grown from my teaching and interest in neo-Victorian fiction, although my work on Southern writers continues. I have also published on Reynolds Price, John Crowe Ransome, Virginia Woolf, and other 20th century literary figures.

Website: http://faculty.winthrop.edu\martinme  

In addition to her passion for teaching, Marilyn Montgomery has maintained a twenty-year career as a technical communicator in her own business, contracting with such companies at E.I. Dupont de Nemours, Roadway Services, Krystal Company, Monsanto Corporation, Vulcan Iron Works, Astec Industries, BASF, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the Securities & Exchange Commission.  As a journalist, she has written for Good Housekeeping, Today’s Woman, Sandlapper, and The New Yorker.  In addition, she has conducted numerous in-house training seminars for business and industry nationally and written K-12 curriculum materials. She is currently completing her Ph.D. in Technical Communications and Rhetoric at Texas Tech University.

I enjoy conducting research and writing on Irish and Modern British literature, with a particular interest in semiotic and object/relations criticism.  I edit Working Papers in Irish Studies, a multidisciplinary quarterly journal on Irish Studies, and I have authored two books on Irish folklore and American Irish frontier mythology.  I am also completing a study of Joyce and music with a colleague.  In addition, I work with Teacher Education track students, engaging in research on the state of the profession and working collaboratively with practitioners in the region.  

EMERITUS FACULTY

Winthrop Creative Writing site

I continue to study connections between the structure of language and culture (including, art, music, literature, sports, and games).  Most recently I have been comparing writing systems to determine the extent to which they reflect the structure of spoken language. Beginning in  2001-2002 I will be the Director of the Master of Liberal Arts Program.

My number one intellectual passion, grappling with the ideas, and social and political ramifications of language and literacy, influences the advanced courses I teach in Composition Theory and Rhetoric as well as my writing courses.  It also colors my work as the Director of the Teaching and Learning Center, which is responsible for the professional and personal development of all Winthrop employees.  Because Winthrop is a community of learners, each student, faculty member, and staff person has the opportunity to learn and to teach others.   Learning is what we’re all about at Winthrop!

I am interested in most things but specialize in 20th century British, including Irish, literature. My current research and writing includes Scotch-Irish genealogy; Celtic culture of Appalachia; a Blue Ridge Moutain glossary or dictionary; and James Joyce, Gustav Mahler, and Charles Ives as modernists.

With Elizabeth H. Wilcox, I edited the Centennial Edition of Jack London’s The Call of the Wild, for Houghton Mifflin Co, 2003. I continue to write fiction and poetry, having completed some two dozen short stories, one novel, and several dozen poems in the past three years.

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