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Publications:
  • "Eden's Translations: Women and Temptation in the New World," Huntington Library Quarterly (March 2007).
Courses/Seminars:
  • American Literature to 1850
  • Transatlantic Literature, 1680-1820
  • Literature of Intercultural Encounter, 1500-1650
  • American Narrative Traditions: Captivity/Slavery/Romance
Michael Householder studies Early American literature, in particular narratives about the intercultural encounters between Europeans and Native Americans in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.  Some of the issues he explores include cultural hybridity, captivity narratives, gender identity, literature as history, and the rise of the novel.  He has also taught courses on transatlantic literature, literature of the American revolution, slave narratives, and literary theory.  He is in the process of completing his first book, Narratives of Encounter: Inventions of Americans.
   
Michael Householder
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
Office: Dallas Hall room 16
Office Hours: TWTh 11-12
Phone: 214-768-2950
Email: mhouseho@smu.edu
Webpage: http://faculty.smu.edu/mhouseho

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