Dr Rachael Mclennan
| Job Title | Contact | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Lecturer - American Literature & Culture |
R dot Mclennan at uea dot ac dot uk
Tel: +44 (0)1603 59 3433 |
Arts Building 1.42 |
Biography
I am a lecturer in American Literature and Culture in the School of American Studies. In broad terms, my research and teaching activities focus on a wide range of interdisciplinary postwar and contemporary texts, from texts published in the 1950s to texts published in the twenty-first century. My Ph.D study at the University of Glasgow examined first-person narratives of female adolescence in American fiction published after 1950. I have published several articles on this area, and my monograph, Developing Figures: Adolescence, America and Postwar Fiction, was published by Palgrave in 2009.
Key Research Interests
I am currently working on two research projects, both of which will result in the publication of book-length works in the near future. Firstly, I am completing a textbook on American Autobiography, under contract with Edinburgh University Press. Secondly, I working on a study of representations of Anne Frank in American literature and culture. I publish articles relating to both projects.
My research and teaching interests therefore focus on the following areas: representations of adolescence and youth, with a special focus on gender; American autobiography; narrative voice; the Holocaust in American literature and culture. In future research and teaching I plan to extend my focus on the relationship between age and identity by working on representations of ageing in America.
Article
Mclennan, Rachael (2009) Enabling Fictions: Philip Roth's Prosthetic Anne Franks. Comparative American Studies, 7 (3). pp. 235-267.
Mclennan, Rachael (2006) "Unpacking ‘something dark’: Narrating Southern female adolescence in Jill McCorkle’s The Cheer Leader, Sylvia Wilkinson’s Bone of my Bones and Thulani Davis’s 1959.”. European Journal of American Culture, 25 (2). pp. 139-152. ISSN 17589118
Book Section
Mclennan, Rachael (2010) Chasing after the wind: The Adolescent Aporias of Jeffrey Eugenides. In: Writing America into the Twenty-first Century: Essays on the American Novel. Cambridge Scholars Publishing , pp. 22-39. ISBN 9781443821339
Mclennan, Rachael (2008) Showing the Fly the Way Out of the Bell Jar: Cobbling a Philosophy of Adolescence in Joyce Carol Oates's I'll take you there. In: Reading America: New Perspectives on the American Novel. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 9781847187772
Book
Mclennan, Rachael (2008) Developing Figures: Adolescence, America and Postwar Fiction. Palgrave, p. 232. ISBN 9780230205512
