Megan Minarich
Election
Position
Name
Megan Minarich
Candidate statement
Associate Director of the Writing Studio & Tutoring Services and Affiliated Faculty in Cinema & Media Arts, Vanderbilt University
I have been an MSA member since 2008 and have participated in eight MSA conferences. Although primarily an Americanist, I also research and publish on British modernism. Disciplinarily, I work in both English and film studies; my scholarship centers around American modernist literature, visual culture, and early through classical Hollywood cinema. My current in-progress book manuscript focuses on representations of women’s reproductive choice in Hollywood cinema between 1915 and 1968, and I have published on modernist cinema, feminism, and reproductive rights.
I am an active modernist scholar and educator who has never been on the tenure track. As Contingent Faculty Representative, my goals are threefold:
1. Act as a voice for my fellow contingent, non-TT modernists and continue to foster inclusion of their contributions and viewpoints
2. Increase awareness of non-TT scholars and their work both inside and outside of the MSA conference
3. Expand avenues of structural and financial support for non-TT scholars
I believe that when the MSA is actively inclusive of contingent and non-TT faculty, especially during this prolonged time of widespread precarity worsened by the pandemic, this inclusivity benefits not only these vital members of the MSA, but all members and our field as a whole.
Publications list:
“Abortion’s Coded Visibility: The Failed Censorship and Box Office Success of Leave Her to Heaven.” Feminist Media Histories (November 2020: Vol. 6, No. 4), Embodiment II: Habitation issue.
“#DistractinglySexy: The ‘Trouble with Girls’ in Men in White (1934) and the Need for Narrative Possibility” Feminist Modernist Studies (October 2019: Vol. 2, No. 3). Part of Special Conference Cluster: Modernist #MeToo and the Working Woman essay cluster.
“Arnold Bennett’s Moving Pictures: Early Filmic Vision in Anna of the Five Towns.” Studies in the Novel (Fall 2019: Vol. 51, No. 3
I have been an MSA member since 2008 and have participated in eight MSA conferences. Although primarily an Americanist, I also research and publish on British modernism. Disciplinarily, I work in both English and film studies; my scholarship centers around American modernist literature, visual culture, and early through classical Hollywood cinema. My current in-progress book manuscript focuses on representations of women’s reproductive choice in Hollywood cinema between 1915 and 1968, and I have published on modernist cinema, feminism, and reproductive rights.
I am an active modernist scholar and educator who has never been on the tenure track. As Contingent Faculty Representative, my goals are threefold:
1. Act as a voice for my fellow contingent, non-TT modernists and continue to foster inclusion of their contributions and viewpoints
2. Increase awareness of non-TT scholars and their work both inside and outside of the MSA conference
3. Expand avenues of structural and financial support for non-TT scholars
I believe that when the MSA is actively inclusive of contingent and non-TT faculty, especially during this prolonged time of widespread precarity worsened by the pandemic, this inclusivity benefits not only these vital members of the MSA, but all members and our field as a whole.
Publications list:
“Abortion’s Coded Visibility: The Failed Censorship and Box Office Success of Leave Her to Heaven.” Feminist Media Histories (November 2020: Vol. 6, No. 4), Embodiment II: Habitation issue.
“#DistractinglySexy: The ‘Trouble with Girls’ in Men in White (1934) and the Need for Narrative Possibility” Feminist Modernist Studies (October 2019: Vol. 2, No. 3). Part of Special Conference Cluster: Modernist #MeToo and the Working Woman essay cluster.
“Arnold Bennett’s Moving Pictures: Early Filmic Vision in Anna of the Five Towns.” Studies in the Novel (Fall 2019: Vol. 51, No. 3
Candidate CV