MicKenzie Fasteland, Ph.D.
Titles
- Visiting Assistant Professor
Departments
- English
- Blugold Seminar
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MicKenzie Fasteland received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan after completing her dissertation "Empire and Adolescence: Whiteness and Gendered Citizenship in American Young Adult Literature, 1904-1951." She is excited to teach writing courses here as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Writing.
Teaching Interests
- Social media studies/digital literacies
- Composition
- American children's and young adult literature
- Feminist theory and literary criticism
- Science fiction and fantasy
Research and Creative Activities
- American children's and young adult literature and mass media, with a focus on race and ethnicity
- American literature post-1865
- History of the book
- Fan studies
- Feminist theory and pedagogy
Education
- Ph.D., University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, English and Women's Studies
- M.A., University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, English Language and Literature
- B.A., Hamline University, English