Mary Unger

  Mary Unger

 

Education

  • Ph.D., MA, BA – English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Graduate minor in Gender and Women’s Studies
  • Undergraduate minor in Chemistry

 

Current Courses Taught

  • ENG 110: Literature and Composition
  • ENG 230: Literary Criticism
  • ENG 324: Modernism
  • ENG 340: Major Authors, Zora Neale Hurston

 

 

 

Awards and Honors

  • Campus Award of Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2011)
  • College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2011)

 

 

Recent Publications and Presentations

  •  “‘Dens of Iniquity and Holes of Wickedness’: George Lippard and the Queer City.” Journal of american Studies 43.2 (Aug. 2009): 319-339.

 

 

Areas of Interest

  • Twentieth-century American literature and culture
  • Modernism
  • African-American literature
  • Disability Studies
  • Gender and Women’s Studies
  • Pedagogy