English Faculty 

Desmond Harding, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Language & Literature

Anspach Hall 218
(989) 774-3139/3171
hardi1d@cmich.edu

Education

Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1999
M.A., University of Southern California, 1992
B.A., University of  Sheffield, 1989

Teaching Expertise

Modern Tran-Atlantic Literature and Culture                 Contemporary British and Irish Literature and Culture     Transnational Cultural Studies
Literary and Cultural Theory

Research Interests

Trans-Atlantic modernism                                                        Literature and the urban experience                                            British and Irish literature and culture                                     American Studies                                                                      Social and Cultural Theory

Select Publications

"Bearing Witness:  Heartbreak House and the Poetics of Trauma." SHAW:  The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies 26 (2006): 6-26

Writing the City:  Urban Visions & Literary Modernism. New York: Routledge, 2003.

"'The Dead':  Joyce's Epitaph for Dublin." Joyce and the City:  The Significance of Place. Ed. Michael H. Begnal.  Syracuse:  Syracuse UP, 2002. 123-38.

"The Power of Place:  Richard Wright's Native Son." College Language Association 40.3 (March 1997): 367-79.

"Edward Said's Theory of Orientalism and the Literature of the Crusades." The Year's Work in Medievalism 9 (Spring 1994): 175-90.

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English Graduate Program
208 Anspach Hall, Central Michigan University
Mount Pleasant MI 48859
(989) 774-3574

Department Office
215 Anspach Hall
(989) 774-3171