Office: Bizzell Library, Room 4
Email: crmintler@ou.edu
Website: crmintler.com
Dr. Mintler joined OU’s Edith Kinney Gaylord Expository Writing Program faculty in 2008, after completing a PhD in English and Women’s and Gender Studies with a focus on fashion and identity in literary modernism from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Dr. Mintler is affiliate faculty in the Women's and Gender Studies (WGS) Program as well as in the Carceral Studies Consortium, and serves on the WGS Social Justice Committee.
Dr. Mintler’s research and scholarship in literary modernism explore connections between sartoriality and formal innovation in the modernist novel, and the effects of this coalescence in representing modern identity. Her publications include a chapter on Ernest Hemingway and the female writer in the Kent State University Press series, Teaching Hemingway and Gender, and on F. Scott Fitzgerald and dandyism in the F. Scott Fitzgerald Review. Current research in progress argues that we should read The Great Gatsby as the first literary gangster novel, that we find in the life and writing of Ernest Hemingway evidence of a post-war, twentieth-century flâneur figure, and that those modernist writers who feature the impact and influence of fashion, clothing, and sartoriality in their work draw upon early childhood sartorial experiences Dr. Mintler refers to, drawing on Sigmund Freud, as "sartorial primal scenes."
Dr. Mintler has published work related to this research on Fitzgerald and dandyism, “From Aesthete to Gangster: the Dandy Figure in the Novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald" in the F. Scott Fitzgerald Review, and has contributed a chapter titled "The Female Expatriate Consumer Artist in The Garden of Eden to the collection Teaching Hemingway and Gender. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, an Annette Kolodny Award, a Smith Reynolds Founders Fellowship from the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society, and OU’s Presidential Fellowship.
Since joining the Expository Writing Program, Dr. Mintler has designed and taught the following first year writing seminars: Fashion & Identity, What Is Work?, American Gangster: From Jay Gatsby to Jay-Z, Seeing Is Believing, Citizens!, Doppelgängers & Doubles, Wolves of Wall Street, Myth of the American Dream, and The Great Gatsby: Myth to Meme. She is designing a new course, Peripatetic Worlds: from Pilgrimage to Psychogeography, and co-designing a course on Prison Writing. From 2017-2019 she served as the program Interim Director.
Dr. Mintler’s community engaged service involves programs that support incarcerated writers and artists. With colleagues from OU’s Expository Writing Program and Seminole State University, she co-mentors a group of incarcerated writers at Joseph Harp Correctional Center in Lexington, Oklahoma, and is a co-founder and a board member of OPWAF: Oklahoma Prison Writers and Artists Foundation. She has been affiliate faculty in OU’s Carceral Studies Consortium since 2021, affiliate faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies since 2018, has served on the Women’s and Gender Studies Social Justice Committee since 2019, and has been a member of OU Green Zone, specifically supporting OU military students through service on the Pat Tillman Scholarship Committee since 2014. Dr. Mintler has been a committed 2SLGTBQIA+ ally for 25 years.
