St. Bonaventure University Faculty Profiles
Walsh, Megan
TITLES/RESPONSIBILITIES
Department Chair, English
Associate Professor, English
ACADEMIC SCHOOL
School of Arts & Sciences
ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT
English
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office phone: (716) 375-2447
E-Mail: mwalsh@sbu.edu
OFFICE LOCATION
Plassmann Hall F-2
COURSES TAUGHT
- CLAR 110. Composition and Critical Thinking I
- CLAR 209. Art and Literature
- ENG 220. American Literature I
- ENG 221. American Literature II
- ENG 375. American Novel to 1865
- ENG 379. African American Literature
- ENG 500. Bibliography/Methods of Research
- ENG 572. American Literature of the Nineteenth Century
- ENG 574. American Literary Movements
ACADEMIC DEGREES
- Ph.D. (2010) and M.A. (2006), English, Temple University
- B.A. with Honors (2003), History and English, University of Wisconsin-Madison
OTHER EDUCATION
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS/PROJECTS
My research and teaching focus on the literary culture of America in the colonial and antebellum periods. I have particular interest in the history of the book, visual and material culture, and African American writing. I am currently completing a book about the impact of illustration on literary writing in the United States between 1770 and 1830. With William Huntting Howell (Boston University), I am co-editor of Frank J. Webb’s The Garies and Their Friends (Broadview Press, 2016). My work has appeared most recently in Early American Literature, Common-place, and Literature in the Early American Republic, and has been supported by grants from a number of institutions including the American Antiquarian Society, the Newberry Library, and the American Philosophical Society. At St. Bonaventure, I have received three Keenan-Martine grants for my teaching, as well as the Junior Faculty Award for Professional Excellence.
PERSONAL INTERESTS/COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT