Dr. Miriam Mara

Assistant Professor, Minard 320E, 231-6506, Miriam.Mara@ndsu.edu

In Fall 08 Dr. Mara will teach Graduate Scholarship, British Literature Survey II, and Writing in the Health Professions.

In Spring 09 Dr. Mara will offer British Fiction and a Graduate level Irish Literature course.

Miriam Mara studies Modern and contemporary Irish literature, especially the representation of bodies and health in literature, and medical rhetoric, while she teaches in the Department of English at North Dakota State University. Her early work investigates the trope of anorexia in Irish literature. Publication venues include Critique: Studies in Contemporary Literature, Dickens Studies Annual and a number of book chapters in collections such as The Current Debate about the Irish Literary Canon. More recent efforts includes an article titled "Reproductive Cancer: Female Autonomy & Border Crossing in Medical Discourse and Fiction."

Updated March 23, 2008.