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Michael D. Sharp

(Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1999)

Lecturer, English Department

tel.: (607) 777-2418
fax.: (607) 777-2408

e-mail:msharp@binghamton.edu

 


State University of New York • Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000

Areas of Interest

  • Medieval Literature
  • American Crime Fiction
  • Comics
  • Popular Fiction
  • Arthurian Literature

Books and Recent Articles

As Editor:

  • Popular Contemporary Writers. 11 vols., ed. Michael D. Sharp ( Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish, 2006).

  • "The Legacy of Raymond Chandler: 'Neither Tarnished Nor Afraid.'" Collection of articles co-edited with Miranda Hickman in a special number of Studies in the Novel 35.3 (Fall 2003).


    As Author:

  • Introduction, “Lynda Barry,” and “Patricia Highsmith.” In Popular Contemporary Writers. 11 vols., ed. Michael D. Sharp ( Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish, 2006)

  • “Revenge” and ‘“The Simpsons.”’ In The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Themes, Works, and Wonders. 3 vols. Ed. Gary Wesfahl. Foreword by Neil Gaiman ( Westport, CT: Green wood Press, 2005).
  • “Plotting Chandler’s Demise: Ross Macdonald and the Neo-Aristotelian Detective Novel.” Studies in the Novel 35 (2003): 405-26.

  • "Reading Chaucer's 'Manly man': The Trouble with Masculinity in the Monk's Prologue and Tale," in Masculinities in Chaucer: Approaches to Maleness in the Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde, ed. Peter G. Beidler (Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer, 1998), 173-85

  • "Remaking Medieval Heroism: Nationalism and Sexuality in Braveheart," Florilegium 15 (1998): 251-66

Recent Courses Taught

  • Arthurian Literature
  • American Crime Fiction
  • Text + Image (Senior Honors Seminar)
  • British Literature I

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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