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Mcwhirter, David

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Professor, English, The Texas A&M University System

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d-mcwhirter@tamu.edu

1 979 845 4564

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overview

I specialize in late 19th and 20th century British and American literature and culture, with particular emphases on modernism, gender studies, aesthetics, early cinema, US southern studies, and Henry James.

education and training

Ph.D. in English, University of Virginia - (Charlottesville, Virginia, United States) 1984
M.A. in English, University of Virginia - (Charlottesville, Virginia, United States) 1977
B.A. in English, Yale University - (New Haven, Connecticut, United States) 1972

selected publications

Academic Articles21

McWhirter, D. (2020). Feeling Backward with Henry James: The Melancholy of History. HENRY JAMES REVIEW. 41(1), 1-14.
Ford, S., & McWhirter, D. (2014). "Everybody to their own visioning": Eudora Welty in the Twenty-First Century. Eudora Welty Review. 6(6), 3-7.
McWhirter, D. (2013). WOOLF, ELIOT, AND THE ELIZABETHANS: THE POLITICS OF MODERNIST NOSTALGIA. ENGLISH LANGUAGE NOTES. 51(1), 231-247.
McWhirter, D. (2011). Bersani's James. HENRY JAMES REVIEW. 32(3), 211-217.
McWhirter, D. (2009). EUDORA WELTY GOES TO THE MOVIES: MODERNISM, REGIONALISM, GLOBAL MEDIA. MFS-MODERN FICTION STUDIES. 55(1), 68-91.

Books3

McWhirter, D. (2014). Preface.

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McWhirter, D. (2010). Henry James in Context. Cambridge University Press.
McWhirter, D. (1989). Desire and Love in Henry James A Study of the Late Novels. Cambridge University Press.

Chapters8

McWhirter, D. (2018). Teaching Welty and/in Modernism. TEACHING THE WORKS OF EUDORA WELTY: TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY APPROACHES. 133-140.
Mcwhirter, D. B. (2014). A Future for Henry James. Tuhkanen, M. (Eds.), Leo Bersani Queer Theory and Beyond. 225-248. SUNY Press.
Mcwhirter, D. B. (2013). Young Henry James: The Outsider. Biasio, A. D., Despotopoulou, A., & Izzo, D. (Eds.), Transforming Henry James. 10-23. Cambridge Scholars Pub.
Mcwhirter, D. B. (2013). Secret Agents: Weltys African Americans. Pollack, H. (Eds.), Eudora Welty, Whiteness, and Race. 114-130. University of Georgia Press.
McWhirter, D. (1997). A provision full of responsibilities: senses of the past in Henry James's fourth phase. Buelens, G. (Eds.), Enacting History in Henry James. 148-165. Cambridge University Press (CUP).