TITLES/RESPONSIBILITIES
Professor of English
Department Chair
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
- ENG 101. Writing I
- ENG 102. Writing II
- 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 cultures of the early United States. I am especially interested in how people living during that period read and wrote about the objects that they owned, and particularly how they crafted their personal, community, and national identities in relation to those artifacts. I am the author of The Portrait and the Book: Illustration and Literary Culture in Early America (University of Iowa Press, 2017) and co-editor, with William Huntting Howell (Boston University), of Frank J. Webb’s The Garies and Their Friends (Broadview Press, 2016). Most recently, my essays have appeared in Common-place, Early American Literature, and Literature in the Early American Republic, and my research has been supported by grants from the American Antiquarian Society, the American Philosophical Society, and the Newberry Library. At St. Bonaventure, I have received four Keenan-Martine grants for curriculum development as well as the 2013 Junior Faculty Award for Professional Excellence.
PERSONAL INTERESTS/COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT