Marilyn Atlas
Associate Professor
American Literature
Office: Ellis 322
Office Phone: 593-2760
Email: atlas@ohio.edu
Degrees
Ph.D., March 1979, Michigan State University
A.M., December 1973, University of Illinois
A.B., June l973, University of Illinois
B.S., August l972, University of Illinois
Publications
Books
Editorial Board Member, Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Indiana University Press, 2001
Selected Essays
“Between the Mission and the Factory: Eunice Tietjen’s Profiles from China.” Midwestern Miscellany Volume xxvii (Fall 1999): 17-26.
“The Roles of Chicago in the Careers of Ellen Van Volkenburg and Maurice Browne,” MidAmerica 23 (1996): 64-72.
“Cracked Psyches and Verbal Putty: Geography and Integrity in Toni Morrison’s Jazz,” Midwestern Miscellany 4 (1996): 63-76.
Curriculum Vitae
On May 14, 2004, Marilyn Atlas was honored at the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature banquet. She was given the MidAmerica Award “for distinguished contributions to the Study of Midwestern Literature.” This award has been given annually to one scholar of Midwestern literature since 1977. Some past recipients are John T. Flanagan, Russel B. Nye, Walter Havighurst, Harlan Hatcher, Bernard Duffey, Clarence Andrews, and Walter Rideout. There is an article on the award and its past recipients in the Dictionary of Midwestern Literature I, Indiana University Press, 2001.
Courses
English 570N/774A: American Modernism
English 570P/775B: American Literature from the Civil War to l914
English 460: Jewish American Women Writers
English 306J: Women and Autobiography
English 321, 322, 323: American Literature Surveys
English 325: Women and Literature
English 399T/ 478T: Twentieth Century American and British Tutorial