Magali Cornier Michael
Professor, English
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BIO
Dr. Magali Cornier Michael is a Professor of English, who has served as Dean of the USF College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) on the St. Petersburg campus from 2018-22 and Interim Dean of the USF College of Arts and Sciences from 2022-24. Dr. Michael earned a BA in English from the University of Georgia and an MA and PhD in English from Emory University. Prior to joining USF, she was as Professor of English and Associate Dean of the McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She has published three single-authored books鈥�Narrative Innovation in 9/11 Fiction, New Visions of Community in Contemporary American Fiction: Tan, Kingsolver, Castillo, Morrison, and Feminism and the Postmodern Impulse: Post-World War II Fiction鈥攁nd edited a collection of essays titled Twenty-First-Century British Fiction and the City, for which she also wrote the introduction and one of the chapters. In addition, she has published articles and book chapters on the work of Diana Abu-Jaber, Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, Don DeLillo, Jonathan Safran Foer, John Fowles, Doris Lessing, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Grace Nichols, D.M. Thomas, and Virginia Woolf. On the teaching front, she has taught a large number of courses at all levels (from freshman to doctoral level courses), especially in the areas of post-World War II literature, women鈥檚 literature, literary theory, and fiction writing. In her work with doctoral students, she has directed twelve dissertations to completion.
EDUCATION
- M.A., Emory University
- Ph.D., Emory University