Personal profile

About

Marjorie Worthington received her bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College, her master's from the University of Missouri and her PhD from Indiana University. She teaches courses in American literature and focuses her research on subjects related to contemporary, particularly experimental, fiction. Her work has appeared in journals such as LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory;Twentieth-Century Literature;Studies in the Novel; and Critique. Her book The Story of "Me": Contemporary American Autofiction was published in November, 2018 by The University of Nebraska Press.

Contact Information

Office: 3321 - Coleman Hall
Spring 2021 office hours: MWF 10-11 a.m. and 12-1 p.m. and by appointment

Education/Academic qualification

Ph.D., Indiana University - Bloomington

… → 2000

M.A., University of Missouri

… → 1995

A.B., Dartmouth College

… → 1990

Research Interests

  • Twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature
  • postmodernism
  • metafiction
  • women’s studies
  • feminist and narrative theory

Disciplines

  • English Language and Literature