Education:
Ph.D., Graduate Center, City University of New York, 1991
Contact:
Office: Cate 2, Room 318
Email: hmcdonald@ou.edu
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).
Nineteenth-century American literature; twentieth-century American literature; literary theory
The Normative Basis of Culture: A Philosophical Investigation (Louisiana State University Press, 1986)
The Ethics of Comparative Religion (University Press of America, 1984)
