Kelly McGuire

Associate Professor of English

Contact Information

617-735-9972

mcguirek@emmanuel.edu

Office Hours

Office: Administration Building, Room 434-B

Office hours: Monday and Wednesday, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., 1:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m., and by appointment

Publications + Presentations

"Critical Evanescence: Rethinking Early Modern Subjectivity through Lacan." In "Lacanian Interpretations of Shakepeare," a special issue of The Shakespeare Yearbook, 2010.
"The Art of Disorientation: Image, Event, and the Politics of Response in three films about 9/11." Enculturation, May 2009

Textbook companions

Heath Anthology of American Literature, 2001-2003
Researched, edited, and wrote content for interactive literary, historical, and cultural timeline (1530-2000) for textbook companion website and maintained the site quarterly.
Raimes, Keys for Writers, 2003
Designed and wrote material for companion website to Ann Raimes's Keys for Writers series.
Jack Rawlins, The Writer's Way, 2003
Updated and edited Instructor's Resource Manual
John Chaffee, Thinking Critically, 2002
Updated Instructor's Resource Manual
Vandermey et al, The College Writer, 2002
Designed and wrote material for interactive textbook companion website.
Cooper, Literacy: Helping Children to Construct Meaning, 2001
Designed and wrote material for interactive textbook companion website.

Presentations and Lectures

"'Guys Drive on Ice': A Topological Study of Masculinity in Breaking Bad," International Narrative Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 2012
"See Dick Dream His Own Death: Pseudocide Fantasies in Contemporary American Television," International Narrative Conference, Cleveland, Ohio, April 2010
"Monstrous Lover: Gender and Narrative Form in Lady Mary Wroth's Sonnets," International Narrative Conference, Birmingham, England, June 2009
"After the 'Unspeakable:' Tensions between Theory and the Real in post-9/11 Cultural Texts," International Narrative Conference, Austin, Texas, May 2008.
"L'Enfant Terrible: Narrative, Subjectivity, and the Story after Theory," International Narrative Conference, Washington D. C., March 2007.
"The Man of Action: Masculinity as Legitimizing Narrative in the War in Iraq." International Narrative Conference, Ottawa, April 2006.
"Critical Evanescence: Rethinking Early Modern Subjectivity through Lacan," Renaissance Society of America, San Francisco, March 2006.
"'I am not I, pity the tale of me': Narrative Encounters with the Real in Filmic Depictions of 9/11." International Narrative Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, April 2005.
"Art and the Cult: the beautiful-grotesque in Geek Love." Narrative Conference, Burlington, Vermont, April 2004.
"Strange Beauty: the objet petit a and Critical Discourse," Annual Interdisciplinary Conference at USC, Los Angeles, April 2004.
"Beauty, Hurston, Sex, Trees, and Libations." Feminist Colloquium, Brandeis University, April 1996.

Kelly McGuire

Associate Professor of English

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