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About

Megan Faragher received her PhD in English Literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2012, where she specialized in 20th-century English and Irish literature. She joined Wright State University Lake Campus after completing a Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellowship at East Tennessee State University. Her research and teaching interests center on British literature between the world wars at the intersections of technology, information, and culture. Her scholarship has been published in Textual Practice, The Space Between Journal, and Literature & History. She has also contributed essays to the scholarly collections Humans at Work in the Digital Age: Forms of Digital Textual Labor and Twenty-First Century British Fiction and the City. She was the recipient of the Lake Campus's Outstanding Faculty Research Award in 2018-2019 and 2020-2021. In her teaching, Megan Faragher centers her classes around themes of information, technology, and propaganda studies. Her first book, Public Opinion Polling in Mid-Century British Literature: The Psychographic Turn, was published by Oxford University Press in 2021.

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Education/Academic qualification

English, Ph.D., Concentration in Modern British and Irish Literature, State University of New York at Buffalo

Award Date: Sep 1 2012

English, M.A., State University of New York at Buffalo

Award Date: May 1 2009

English and Women's Studies, B.A., Arizona State University

Award Date: May 1 2006

Research Interests

  • Modern British and Anglophone Literature
  • World War II Literature
  • British and Irish Women Writers
  • Digital Humanities
  • Intermodernist Studies
  • Information Studies
  • Propaganda Studies
  • Critical Theory and Pedagogy

Disciplines

  • English Language and Literature