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Brian McHale, Professor

Department of English: http://english.osu.edu/ .


Brian McHale is Distinguished Humanities Professor of English in the Ohio State University. McHale is a Rhodes Scholar (Rhode Island 1972), D Phil from Merton College, Oxford, and B.A. from Brown University. He has taught at Tel Aviv University, West Virginia University, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Freiburg (Germany), and the University of Canterbury (New Zealand), among other institutions. He was for many year associate editor, and later co-editor, of the journal Poetics Today. He is the author of Postmodernist Fiction (1987), Constructing Postmodernism (1992), and The Obligation toward the Difficult Whole (2004), as well as articles on free indirect discourse, mise en abyme, narrativity, modernist and postmodernist poetics, and science fiction. He is co-editor with Randall Stevenson of The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Literatures in English (2006).