Full-Time Faculty

Margaret Soltan
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1984

Margaret Soltan's interest in all aspects of the changing American university is reflected in her popular weblog, University Diaries.  A 2007 book, Reading Beauty in DeLillo, Merrill, and Woolf (Palgrave Macmillan), co-authored with her GW colleague Jennifer Green-Lewis, combines her interest in contemporary American fiction and poetry with an emphasis on the return of aesthetic considerations to literary study.  She has been interviewed on various literary, political, and social issues by the Washington Post, the Chronicle of Higher Education, The London Times, Fox News, Irish national radio, Inside Higher Education, and other media outlets. 

Book:

Reading Beauty in DeLillo, Merrill, and Woolf (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).

Other publications:

"After the Mourning," Washington Post, 2006.

"Loyalty to Reality in DeLillo's White Noise," in Approaches to Teaching White Noise, The Modern Language Association, 2006.

"The Faculty Bench," and "No Field, No Future," Inside Higher Education, 2006.

"Hoax Poetry in America," Angelaki, 5.1, Winter, Poets on the Verge issue, 2005.

"From Black Magic to White Noise: Malcolm Lowry and Don DeLillo," in A Darkness that Murmured: Essays on Malcolm Lowry and the Twentieth Century, University of Toronto Press, 2000.

Media

PBS News Hour