Dr. Michelle Balaev
Visiting Assistant Professor
Contact
Office: C5c Tribble Hall
Phone: (336) 758-4226
Email: balaevm@wfu.edu
Degrees
PhD University of Oregon
MA University of Nevada, Reno
BA University of California, Santa Cruz
Areas of Interest
- 20th-Century American Literature
- Psychology and Literature
- Gender Studies and Feminism
- Ecocriticism and Nature Writing
- Asian American and Pacific Rim Literatures
Courses Taught at Wake Forest
ENG 190 The Psychological Self in the Novel
ENG 185 World Literature: The Modern Era
ENG 175 Mercurial Natures and the Paradoxes of Culture in American Literature
ENG 175 Studies in American Literature
ENG 111 Landscape, Culture, and Memory in Asian American Literature
ENG 111 Freedom and Modern Society in British and French Literature
ENG 111 Human Rights and the Environment
ENG 111 Great Green Books: Sustainability and You
Selected Publications
The Nature of Trauma in American Novels. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, June 2012. Forthcoming.
"The Formation of a Field: Ecocriticism in America." PMLA. May 2012. Forthcoming.
“A Foreign Language: Finding Home in Hemingway’s Landscapes.” The Hemingway Review. Forthcoming, Spring 2013.
“Trends in Literary Trauma Theory.” Mosaic: Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature.41.2 (June 2008).
“Landscape Imagery and Memory in the Narrative of Trauma: A Closer Look at Ceremony.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 13.2 (2006).
“How Memory Haunts: Vietnamese Immigrant Identity and Trauma in Lan Cao’s Monkey Bridge.” Studies in the Humanities 31.2 (2004).