Karen Steigman
Professor, Department Chair
Department of English
Education
Research, Creative, & Professional Work
- American literatures 1900-present
- Postcolonial literature and theory
- Post-45 Fiction and Film
- The New Journalism
- Studies in Genre: Political Fiction
- Conrad and Other Agents: Greene, Naipaul, Didion
- Disaster Narratives
- The Woman’s Picture: Feminism and Film
- American 1970s Cinema
- The Western
- Gangsters & Grifters: The Cinema of Crime (Honors Freshman Year Seminar)
Publications
Affiliations & Awards
- Phi Beta Kappa, SUNY-Buffalo, 1994
- MLA (Modern Language Association)
- ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association)
- ASAP (Association of the Arts of the Present)
- Mentor, Preparing Future Faculty Program, The Ohio State University, 2014-present
- MLA Forum Executive Committee, GS Travel Writing, 2018- 2023
- New Teacher of the Year Award, Otterbein University, 2010
- Myron Allen Fellowship, Department of English, University of Minnesota, 1998-99