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, and is now being revised into a book manuscript. 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," Clio and his article, “The Benefits of Watching the Circus Animals Desert: Myth, Yeats, and Patriarchy in Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus” will be appearing in the forthcoming collection Clio and Her Sisters (Palgrave).  His other current projects include an essay, “Graham Greene’s and Carol Reed’s The Third Man: When a Cowboy Comes to Vienna,” and 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 2007:

• ENG 197b: FYS: Milestones
• ENG369: Contemporary Lit in English

Spring 2008:

• ENG 151c: Lit and Interpretation
• HONR 300a: Honor Scholar Seminar: Humanities