Professor
Department of English
Language and Literature
247 Lake Huron Hall
(616) 331-8576
[email protected]
Corinna McLeod
Courses
ENG 204 World Mythology
ENG 303 Studies in World Literature
ENG 382 Nature Writing
ENG 495 Literature and Language (Capstone)
ENG 603 Graduate Seminar in British Literature: Literature of Empire
ENG 616 Graduate Seminar in Caribbean Literature
Research Interests
Mythology, Nationalism(s), Nation-making, Caribbean Literature, Postcolonial Theory, Travel Narratives, Ecocriticism.
Selected Publications
Blumreich, K., & McLeod, C. (2021). From Capes to Tuffskin Jeans: Stephen King's Vampires and 1980s Angst". Horror Studies, 12(2), 235-248.
McLeod, C. (2021). Immunocompromised Passports. Survive & Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine, 6(1), Article 10.
McLeod, C. (2016). “Set Dem Free Again”: Duppy Conqueror and the Invocation of Legacy. Poetry International.
McLeod, C. (2011). Teaching Aberrance: Cinema as a Site for African Feminism. Journal of International Women's Studies, 12(4).
McLeod, C. (2009). Negotiating a National Memory: The British Empire and Commonwealth Museum. African and Black Diaspora, 2(2), 157-165. Reprinted in Museums in Postcolonial Europe (2009) edited by Dominic Thomas, Routledge.
McLeod, C. (2008). Constructing a Nation: Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place. Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 25, 77-92.
Education
B.S., University of Tulsa
M.A., University of South Carolina
Ph.D., University of South Carolina