Title: Graduate Student

Department: English

Office: Buttrick 4-61
Email: megan.l.minarich@vanderbilt.edu

Degrees

• M.A. English, Vanderbilt University (2008)
• M.A. English, Stanford University (2006)
• B.A. English and French, Magna Cum Laude, Highest Distinction in English, University of Illinois at Chicago (2005)

Research Area

• American Modernism
• Early Film / Photography
• Narrative Theory
• Southern Literature and Culture / Regionalism
• Eugenics
• Class and Industry

Current Courses

• English 102W: Literature and Analytical Thinking -- The Fun in Dysfunctional: Narrative, Temporality, and the Family

Current Positions

• Treasurer, English Graduate Student Association
• Instructor, English Department
• Graduate Consultant, Vanderbilt Writing Studio
• Tutor, Nashville Adult Literacy Council

Previous Positions

• Vanderbilt:
• First-Year Conference Coordinator (2007-08)
• Academic Committee Representative (2007-08)
• 102w Sub-Committee Member (2007-08)
• Other:
• Graduate Tutor, Hume Writing Center, Stanford
• Staff Tutor, Writing Center, UIC

Professional Societies

• Modern Language Association

Professional Honors

• University Fellowship, Vanderbilt (2007 - )
• Phi Beta Kappa, Iota of Illinois, UIC (2005)
• Undergraduate English Award for Critical Writing, UIC (2003, 2005)
• Undergraduate English Award for Creative Writing, UIC (2005)
• Robert and Corrinne Silver Scholarship, UIC (2003)

Miscellaneous

M.A. Thesis:
Fractured Vision: Moving Pictures and Modernist Gothic in Arnold Bennett's _Anna of the Five Towns_

Other:
Second City Chicago Beginning Improv Program Alumna (2004); Illinois' Junior Miss First Runner-Up (2001)