Personal profile
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.
Related documents
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
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Orwell and kindness
Faragher, M., Feb 20 2025, The Oxford Handbook of George Orwell. Oxford University Press, p. 501-513 13 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Book Review: George Orwell: The Ethics of Equality by Peter Brian Barry
Faragher, M., 2024, In: George Orwell Studies. 8, 2Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
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Book Review: Modernism in Irish Women's Contemporary Writing by Paige Reynolds
Faragher, M., 2024, In: Journal of Contemporary Literature. 64, 3Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
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Introduction: Politicizing the domestic and domesticizing politics
Dinsman, M., Faragher, M. & Richardson, R., Jul 9 2024, Mid-Century Women's Writing: Disrupting the public/private divide. Dinsman, M., Faragher, M. & Richardson, R. (eds.). Manchester University Press, p. 1-13 13 p. (Mid-century women's writing).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript
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Introduction to Part I
Faragher, M., Jul 9 2024, Mid-century women's writing: Disrupting the public/private divide. Manchester University Press, p. 17-19 3 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript
Activities
- 1 Invited talk
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The Literary Imagination of Abraham Maslow
Faragher, M. (Speaker)
Dec 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk