Marilyn Atlas
Atlas also teaches in Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies and the Jewish Studies Certificate.
Education
Ph.D. March 1979, Michigan State University
A.M. December 1973, University of Illinois (Urbana, Champaign)
A.B. High Honors in Liberal Arts and Sciences with Distinction in English Education, June 1973, University of Illinois
B.S. High Honors in Liberal arts and Sciences with Distinction in Psychology, August 1972, University of Illinois
Scholarly Focus
- American Literature
Publications
Articles
鈥淧atricia Hampl, Minnestora and The Florist鈥檚 Daughter: Memoir as History.鈥 Ed. Ronald Primeau. Critical Insights: Midwestern Literature. Ipswich, Mass: Salem Press, 2014. 61-75.
鈥淧atricia Hampl, Minnestora and The Florist鈥檚 Daughter: Memoir as History.鈥 Ed. Ronald Primeau. Critical Insights: Midwestern Literature. Ipswich, Mass: Salem Press, 2014. Forthcoming.
鈥淩eal, Romantic, Modern and Natural: Midwestern Hybridity and Franklin Booth鈥檚 Illustrations in Theodore Dreiser鈥檚 A Hoosier Holiday.鈥 Ed. Ronald Primeau. Critical Insights: American Road Literature. Ipswich, Mass: Salem Press, 2013. 32-46.
鈥淓xiles All: Becoming the Individual in the Lighthouse Looking out, and Margaret Anderson鈥檚 My Thirty Years鈥 War.鈥 Inter/Sections: Isagani R. Cruz and Friends (Festschrift in Honor of Isagani R. Cruz), Ed. David Jonathon Y. Bayot. Manila, Philippines. De La Salle University/Anvil Publishing, 2010. 159-174, (published in hardbound and paperback).
鈥淥ne Bostonian鈥檚 Romantic, Realistic, and Modern View of the Midwest: Margaret Fuller鈥檚 Summer on the Lakes, in 1843.鈥 Ed. Jane Waterman. Midwestern Miscellany Special Issue 鈥淭he Midwest as Seen by Non - Midwestern Writers.鈥 XXXVIII Spring/Fall 2010: 24-36.
鈥淔rom Novel to Plays: Zona Gale and the Marriage Plot in Three Versions of Miss Lulu Bett,鈥 Midwestern Miscellany XXX 2002: 35-45. Reprinted in Drama Criticism.
New York: Gale, 2008.
鈥淔rom Novel to Plays: Zona Gale and the Marriage Plot in Three Versions of Miss Lulu Bett,鈥 Midwestern Miscellany XXX 2002: 35-45 (appeared December 2003).
鈥淔辞谤别飞辞谤诲,鈥 In the Days of Serfdom and Other Stories, Leo Tolstoy, 1911. Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. vii-ix.
鈥淪herwood Anderson and the Women of Winesburg.鈥 In Critical Essays on Sherwood Anderson, edited by David D. Anderson. New York: G.K. Hall and Company. 1981, 250-265. Reprinted in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism Volume 123. New York: Gale, 2002. 9-17.
鈥淭he Issue of Literacy in America: Slave Narratives and Toni Morrison鈥檚 The Bluest Eye,鈥 MidAmerica XXVII 2000. 106-119 (appeared in 2002).
鈥淓llen Van Volkenburg, Women Building Chicago: A Biographical Dictionary 1790-1990. Ed. Rima Lunin Schulz and Adele Hast. Bloomington, Indiana: University Press, 2001, 909-911.
鈥淢argaret Anderson,鈥 Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2001: 37-40.
鈥淎lice Gerstenberg,鈥 Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2001: 218-220.
鈥淗arriet Monroe,鈥 Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2001: 364-366.
鈥淭oni Morrison,鈥 Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2001: 370-375.
鈥淓unice Tietjens,鈥 Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2001: 495-497.
鈥淏etween the Mission and the Factory: Eunice Tietjens鈥 Profiles from China,鈥 Midwestern Miscellany 27 (Fall, 1999): 17-26.
鈥淓llen Van Volkenburg,鈥 Women Building Chicago: A Biographical Dictionary 1790-1990. Ed. Rima Lunin Schulz and Adele Hast. Bloomington, Indiana: University Press, 2001, 909-911.
鈥淢argaret Anderson,鈥 Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2001: 37-40.
鈥楢lice Gerstenberg,鈥 Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2001: 218-220.
鈥淗arriet Monroe,鈥 Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2001: 364-366.
鈥淭oni Morrison,鈥 Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2001: 370-375.
鈥淓unice Tietjens,鈥 Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2001: 495-497.
鈥淏etween the Mission and the Factory: Eunice Tietjens鈥 Profiles from China,鈥 Midwestern Miscellany 27 (Fall, 1999): 17-26.
鈥淐racked Psyches and Verbal Putty: Geography and Integrity in Toni Morrison鈥檚 Jazz,鈥 Midwestern Miscellany 24 (1996): 63-76.
鈥淭one and Technology in Harriet Monroe鈥檚 鈥楾he Turbine,鈥欌 MidAmerica 22 (l995): 69-82.
鈥淭oni Morrison鈥檚 Beloved and the Critics,鈥 Midwestern Miscellany 18 (1990): 45-57. Reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Gale Library Criticism Series, Christopher Giroux, editor, 87 (1995): 291-295.
鈥淎 Review Essay of Mabel Dodge Luhan: New Woman, New Worlds, by Lois Palken Rudnick,鈥 Resources for American Literary Studies 14 (1986): 209-212.
Five critical abstracts: Toni Cade Bambara, The Salt Eaters; Marge Piercy, Dance the Eagle to Sleep and Vida; Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Falling and Time in its Flight. Adolescent Female Portraits in the American Novel, 1961-1981. Eds. Jane S. Bakerman and Mary Jean DeMarr. New York: Garland Press, l986: 21; 136; 136-7; 165-166; 166.
鈥淚nnovation in Chicago: Alice Gerstenberg鈥檚 Psychological Drama.鈥 Midwestern Miscellany 10 (1982): 59-68.
鈥淐reating Women鈥檚 Myth: Emily Dickinson鈥檚 Legacy to Susan Glaspell, Alison鈥檚 House.鈥 Focus 8.1 (1981): 55-61. Reprinted by the National Council of Teachers of English, l982.
鈥淭he Figurine in the China Cabinet: Saul Bellow and the Nobel Prize.鈥 MidAmerica 8 (1981): 36-49.
鈥淗arriet Monroe, Margaret Anderson, and the Spirit of the Chicago Renaissance.鈥 Midwestern Miscellany 9 (1981): 43-53.
鈥淪herwood Anderson and the Women of Winesburg.鈥 Critical Studies on Sherwood Anderson. ed., David D. Anderson. Boston: G.K. Hall, l981: 250-266.
鈥淔rom Middle Border to City: Chicago鈥檚 Literary Origins, A Review Essay of Prairie Voices by Kenny Williams.鈥 The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature Newsletter 10.3 (1980): 29-32.
鈥淓xploring Line and Circle Imagery: An Entrance into Moby-Dick.鈥 Focus 7.2 (1981): 12-18. Reprinted by the National Council of Teachers of English, l982.
鈥淓lmer Gantry, the Novel and the Film.鈥 Writing About Film and Fiction. Ed. Herbert Bergman. East Lansing: Film Research Center Publications, l980: 240-6.
鈥淭he Darker Side of Toni Morrison鈥檚 Song of Solomon.鈥 The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature Newsletter 10.2 (1980): 1-13.
鈥淐lear Water From a Porcelain Spigot: A Review Essay of Alive With You This Day by F. Richard Thomas.鈥 The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature Newsletter 10.1 (1980): 44-49.
鈥淓xperimentation in the Chicago Little Theatre: Cloyd Head鈥檚 Grotesques.鈥 Midwestern Miscellany 8 (1980) 7-19.
鈥淰oltairine de Cleyre鈥檚 Feminism: A Study of Her Theory and Characterization.鈥 MidAmerica 7 (1980): 40-51.
鈥淎 Woman Both Shiny and Brown: Feminine Strength in Toni Morrison鈥檚 Song of Solomon.鈥 The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature Newsletter 9.3 (1979): 8-12.
Poetry
鈥淢ore Than Molasses.鈥 Readings from the Midwest Poetry Festival 2 (1984): 3.
鈥淓very Refuge Has its Price--I Pay in Silence (A Parable)鈥 and 鈥淔aith.鈥 In Other Than Scholarly Ways. East Lansing: Years Press, l980: 6-8.
鈥淲e Crawl Toward God.鈥 University College Quarterly. 25.4 (1980): 32.
鈥淵outh Knows A World鈥 and 鈥淭hrough Summer.鈥 University College Quarterly 25.2 (1980): 18-19.
鈥淣ight Clicks On.鈥 Red Cedar Review. 7.2 (1978): 25.
鈥淭ortuous Journey to Poetry.鈥 Speakout. Poetry Issue (1977): 1
鈥淭o David My Own Personal Spring.鈥 Seed and Stamen 1 (1977): 27.
Dissertation
A Psychobiographical Approach to Moby-Dick. Director: C. David Mead. This dissertation attempts to trace and illuminate the circle and line imagery of the novel by examining their relationship to the novel鈥檚 characterization as well as to the author鈥檚 personality, friendships, and family construction.
Editorships
Editor, Conversations with Cynthia Ozick, Jackson: University of Mississippi Press (under contract for 2016).
Senior Editor, Dictionary of Midwestern Literature II, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2016.
Guest Editor, Special Issue on 鈥淲riting Chicago," Midwestern Miscellany XLIII Spring/Fall (2015).
Editorial Board Committee for MidAmerica and Midwestern Miscellany, 2004- present.
Senior Editor, Dictionary of Midwestern Literature I, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2001.
Guest Editor, Special Issue on Toni Morrison, Midwestern Miscellany 24 (1996).
Associate Editor, The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature Newsletter, East Lansing, Michigan, 1978-1988.
Selected Awards and Honors
Editorial Board, Senior Editor, Dictionary of Midwestern Literature I, 1992--present
Fulbright, Manila, Philippines, May-August 1985
The MidAmerica Award for 鈥渄istinguished contributions to the study of Midwestern literature,鈥 Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, East Lansing, Michigan, May 14, 2004
Member of the 帝王会所-De La Salle University Affiliation Program, 帝王会所, Fulbright, Manila, Philippines, May-August 1985
USIS Lecturer
Feminist Award
Award for Excellence in Teaching
Selected Grants
Arts and Sciences (帝王会所) Humanities Research Grant ("Dictionary of Midwestern Literature editing and indexing") 2015-16.
Office of Research and Sponsored Programs (帝王会所), Publication Support, Dictionary of Midwestern Literature II 2016.
Arts and Sciences (帝王会所) Professional Development Award (鈥溾橝lone Together鈥欌: A Closer Look at Intimacy, Authority and Relationships Between Humans and Technology鈥), Costa Rica IPCA, Summer 2011.
Arts and Sciences (帝王会所) Professional Development Award ( 鈥淕eography and Identity: The Ireland of W.B. Yeats and James Joyce鈥), Summer 2003.
Arts and Sciences (帝王会所) Professional Development Award (鈥淢odernism in Paris鈥), 2001.
Selected Regional, National and International Lectures
"The Craters of Our Childhood Are Etched on Our Faces: Geography Lessons in Toni Morrison's Eleventh Novel, G-d Help the Child," Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, May 2016.
"Glancing Geographically at the Reception of Toni Morrison's Latest Novel, G-d Help the Child: Does the Midwest Still Matter?" Modern Language Association, Austin, Texas January 2016. Part of the presidential theme, "Literature's Public Receptions."
"Toni Morrison's G-d Help the Child: Rememory as Science and Aesthetic,"Midwest Modern Language Association, Columbus, 帝王会所 November 2015.
"The Bread of Time: Toward an Autobiography (1994), The Norton Anthology of Jewish American Literature (2001), and the Not So Simple Sometimes Progressive Art of the Jewish, Post-Post-Modern Poet, Philip Levine, Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, May 2015.
"Resisting Realism: The Role of Memory and Place in Saul Bellow's Winter Novella, The Actual, " Vancouver, Canada, January 2015. Part of the Margaret W. Fergusen presidential theme, "Negotiating Sites of Memory."
"Chicago and Race in Cyrus Colter's Short Story, 'Black for Dinner' (1965)," Midwest Modern Language Association, Detroit Michigan November 2014.
鈥溾楽he Said She Wouldn鈥檛 Go Back to Chicago if She Was Dragged by a Train鈥: Traffic Circles and the 鈥楽agamore Flyover鈥 as Metaphors in Peter Orner鈥檚 Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge.鈥 Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, East Lansing, May 2014.
鈥淩esisting Chicago in Peter Orner鈥檚 Love and Shame and Love,鈥欌 Modern Language Association, Chicago, Illinois, January 2014. Part of the Marianne Hirsch鈥檚 presidential theme, 鈥淰ulnerable Times.鈥
鈥淪plit at the Root: Self-Consciousness, Art, and Artifice in Peter Orner鈥檚 Esther Stories, Midwest Modern Language Association, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, November 2013.
鈥淔lipping Around in Chicago鈥檚 Jewish Memory: Talk and Home and Talk in Peter Orner鈥檚 Experimental Novel, Love and Shame and Love,鈥 Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature Symposium, East Lansing, Michigan, May 2013.
鈥湹弁趸崴 and the International Toni Morrison: From The Bluest Eye to Home,鈥 Modern Language Association, Boston, Massachusetts, January 2013.
鈥淪tamp Paid, Debt, and Redemption in Toni Morrison鈥檚 Latest Novel, Home,鈥 Midwest Modern Language Association, Cincinnati, 帝王会所, November 2012.
鈥淩eal Romantic, Modern and Natural: Theodore Dreiser鈥檚 A Hoosier Holiday and the Midwest,鈥 Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, East Lansing, Michigan, May 2012.
鈥淒avid D. Anderson, Remembered,鈥 Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, East Lansing, Michigan, May 2012.
Dawn Powell鈥檚 Dance Night and 鈥淢idwest Small Town Poison鈥 Modern Language Association, Seattle, Washington, January 2012.
鈥淗a, ha, ha, Ouch: Dance Night, Trip Night, Black, Black, Dawn Powell, or 鈥楢 Capacity to go Overboard is a requisite for a Full-Grown-Mind,鈥欌 Midwest Modern Language Association, St. Louis, Missouri, November 2011.
鈥淣ot Obsolete Yet, But Living on the Edge: Humans in Isaac Asimov鈥檚 I, Robot,鈥滻nternational Popular Culture, American Culture Conference, San Jose, Cost Rica, July 2011.
鈥溾橭ne Man鈥檚 Ceiling is Anothr Man鈥檚 Floor鈥: Tracy Letts鈥檚 Superior Donuts鈥 Shortened Visit to Broadway,鈥 Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, East Lansing, Michigan, May 2011.
鈥淧atricia Hampl, Minnesota and The Florist鈥檚 Daughter: Memoir as History, (Part of the panel, Narrating Lives & Midwestern Literary Self- Consciousness, presidential Theme, Modern Language Association, Los Angeles, California, January 2011.
鈥淭error, the Midwest, and the Lure of the Grotesque in Tracy Letts鈥檚 August, Osage County, Midwest/Modern Language Association, Chicago, Illinois, November 2010.
鈥淪taging the Midwest: Tracy Letts鈥檚 August: Osage County and Geography, Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, East Lansing, Michigan, May 2010.
鈥淩adical Styles and Thought in Esther Broner鈥檚 A Weave of Women (invited lecture) Jewish Studies and Women鈥檚 Studies Departments at Wittenberg University, Springfield, 帝王会所, April 2010.
鈥溾橧鈥檓 Fine. Just got the Plains鈥: Geography and Sex in Tracy Letts鈥檚 August: Osage County, Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 2009.
鈥淎 Novel Worth Remembering and a Place Impossible to Forget: Dawn Powell鈥檚 Dance Night, Lampton, 帝王会所, Midwest Fantasy, and Midwest Migration,鈥 Midwest/Modern Language Association, St. Louis, Missouri, November 2009.
鈥淧lace and Space in Patricia Hampl鈥檚 The Florist鈥檚 Daughter, Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature Symposium, East Lansing, Michigan, May 2009.
鈥淎 Mercy or Mercy!鈥 Toni Morrison鈥檚 Recent Fable or Failure,鈥 Panel discussion with Dr. Melody Zajdel, Montana State University, International Popular Culture Convention, Turku, Finland, June 2009.
鈥淢argaret Anderson鈥檚 The Unknowable Gurdjieff: The Journey West and the Journey Inward,鈥 Modern Language Association, San Francisco, California, December 2008.
鈥淢iddle Class, in the Middle of America, in the Middle of the Century: Patricia Hampl鈥檚 The Florist鈥檚 Daughter, Midwest/Modern Language Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 2008.
鈥淭he Midwest as Place and Symbol: Margaret Fuller鈥檚 Summer on the Lakes, in 1843,鈥 Society for the Study of Midwestern literature, East Lansing, Michigan, May 2008.
鈥淚ntroducing Etgar Keret,鈥 Wexner Center for the Arts, May 2008.
鈥淓tgar Keret, Woody Allen and Lessons in Intertextuality or What鈥檚 Four Decades and Different Countries Among Friends?鈥 Beth Tikvah Lecture Series, Columbus, 帝王会所, February 2007.
鈥淔lipping Out With Etgar Keret: Israeli Funny Guy,鈥滲eth Tikvah Lecture Series, Columbus, 帝王会所, February 2007.
鈥淭he Lake Front and the City: Margaret Anderson鈥檚 My Thirty Years鈥 War and Chicago,鈥 Modern Language Association, Chicago, Illinois, December 2007.
鈥淭oni Morrison鈥檚 Eulogy for James Baldwin: Realism, Ambivalence, Fertility and Writing the Stories One Needs to Read,鈥 Midwest Modern Language Association, Cleveland, 帝王会所, November 2007.
鈥淓thnicity, Geography, and Humor in Adam Langer鈥檚 Crossing California and the Washington Story,鈥 Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, East Lansing, Michigan, May 2007.
Selected Professional Experience
2016鈥攑resent: Professor of English (tenured) at 帝王会所
1984--2016: Associate Professor of English (tenured) at 帝王会所
1985: Visiting Professor at De La Salle University in Manila Philippines
1980--1984: Director of Women鈥檚 Studies at 帝王会所 (1980-2) and Assistant Professor of English at 帝王会所
Selected Professional Service
Prize Coordinator for the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature: Poetry, Creative Writing, and Criticism, 2003 to the present
鈥淢argaret Fuller: Pioneer, Transcendentalist, and Scholar,鈥 Television Conversation with Lois Whaley. Women Today & Yesterday, Public Television, Time-Warner Cable Channel 23. Athens, 帝王会所 Community Access, Week of July 23, 2010
Served as Outside Evaluator for Tenure and Promotion at Other Institutions.
鈥淲ired for Books,鈥 International radio broadcasts on Leo Tolstoy, Raymond Carver, Toni Morrison and Zora Neale Hurston. Heard by thousands of people. Some programs translated into other languages. WOUB: 帝王会所: David Kurz moderator and producer. Distribution 1996 to the present
Director of 鈥淢aking Our Lives A Study: A Conference on Feminist Criticism and Creativity鈥 (over 400 in attendance), 帝王会所, Athens, 帝王会所, March l982
Courses Taught
Areas of Special Interest in Literature
- Early American
- American Renaissance
- American Modernism
- Twentieth Century Literature
- Midwestern Literature
- Women's Literature
- Jewish Literature
- Israeli Literature
- Literary History
- Literary Theory
- Canon Formation
Selected Classes Taught at 帝王会所
(An asterisk identifies that Atlas was the individual who designed the class for inclusion in 帝王会所's English Department's curriculum and was the first to teach it at 帝王会所 under its own number.)
- ENG 570N/ 774A: American Modernisms
- ENG 570P/775B: American Literature from the Civil War to 1914
- ENG 460: The Midwest in Fiction
- ENG 460: Melville, The American Renaissance, and Popular Culture
- ENG 460: The Chicago Literary Renaissance
- ENG 465: Toni Morrison's Fiction and the Study of Place
- ENG 465: Modernisms鈥擵irginia Woolf and James Joyce
- ENG 306J: Women and Writing (memoir)
- ENG 321, 322, 323: American literature - - Beginnings to 1865; 1865 to 1914; and 1914 to the present
- ENG 327: African American Fiction (James Baldwin and Toni Morrison)
- ENG 325: Women's Literature *
- ENG 324a: Jewish American Literature *
- ENG 334: Israeli Literature *
- ENG 399T/478T: Twentieth Century American and British Tutorial