Michael Sinowitz

Ph.D. (University of Miami)
Associate Professor
12 Asbury Hall
Phone: (765) 658-6311
E-mail: msinowitz@depauw.edu

Michael Sinowitz took a position at DePauw in 1999 after a two-year stint as a Postdoctoral Lecturer at the University of Miami. His dissertation, Waking into History: Forms of the Postmodern Novel, was completed at Miami in 1997. Previous to his graduate work at the University of Miami, he received undergraduate degrees in English and History from Boston University. He has published "The Western as Postmodern Satiric History: Thomas Berger’s Little Big Man in Clio, “The Benefits of Watching the Circus Animals Desert: Myth, Yeats, and Patriarchy in Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus” in the collection collection, Clio and Her Sisters (Palgrave), and, most recently, “Graham Greene’s and Carol Reed’s The Third Man: When a Cowboy Comes to Vienna” in Modern Fiction Studies. He is currently working on a book length project entitled “Body Politics: History, Genre, and the Body in Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin Series.” His teaching interests include genre fiction and film, British literature (both Modernism and contemporary fiction), James Joyce, and literary theory.

Fall 2009:

• ENG 151b: Lit and Interpretation
• ENG 350: Writing in Lit Studies