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William Henry McDonald

William Henry McDonald

Associate Professor

Photo of William Henry McDonald take in the Cate 2 building at University of Oklahoma

Education:
Ph.D., Graduate Center, City University of New York, 1991

Contact:
Office: Cate 2, Room 318
Email: hmcdonald@ou.edu

Background

Professor McDonald offers courses in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, women's writing, modernism, and the American Renaissance. His graduate teaching covers narrative techniques, narratology, speech-act theory, and contemporary philosophy. He believes that "a good graduate seminar provides an intellectually demanding, open environment in which students can develop the writing and research skills crucial to success in this profession." He has published articles on American literature, literary theory, and philosophy in Surfaces (1995), Texas Studies in Language and Literature (1992), The Henry James Review (1990), The Philosophical Forum (1990), Partisan Review (1989), and The American Scholar (1989).


Research & Teaching Interests

Nineteenth-century American literature; twentieth-century American literature; literary theory


Bookshelf

The Normative Basis of Culture: A Philosophical Investigation (Louisiana State University Press, 1986) 
The Ethics of Comparative Religion (University Press of America, 1984)