Lecturer, English Department
(Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1999)
tel.: (607) 777-2418
fax.: (607) 777-2408
e-mail:msharp@binghamton.edu
Areas of Interest
Medieval Literature
American Crime Fiction
Comics
Popular Fiction
Arthurian Literature
Books and Recent Articles
Popular Contemporary Writers. 11 vols., ed. Michael D. Sharp ( Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish, 2006).
"The Legacy of Raymond Chandler: 'Neither Tarnished Nor Afraid.'" Collection of articles co-edited with Miranda Hickman in a special number of Studies in the Novel 35.3 (Fall 2003).
Introduction, "Lynda Barry," and "Patricia Highsmith." In Popular Contemporary Writers. 11 vols., ed. Michael D. Sharp ( Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish, 2006)
"Revenge" and ‘"The Simpsons."' In The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Themes, Works, and Wonders. 3 vols. Ed. Gary Wesfahl. Foreword by Neil Gaiman ( Westport, CT: Green wood Press, 2005).
"Plotting Chandler's Demise: Ross Macdonald and the Neo-Aristotelian Detective Novel." Studies in the Novel 35 (2003): 405-26.
"Reading Chaucer's 'Manly man': The Trouble with Masculinity in the Monk's Prologue and Tale," in Masculinities in Chaucer: Approaches to Maleness in the Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde, ed. Peter G. Beidler (Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer, 1998), 173-85
"Remaking Medieval Heroism: Nationalism and Sexuality in Braveheart," Florilegium 15 (1998): 251-66
Recent Courses Taught
Arthurian Literature
American Crime Fiction
Text + Image (Senior Honors Seminar)
British Literature I
