Lawlor, Mary

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LAWLOR, Mary


PERSONAL: Daughter of John Laboyteaux (a military pilot) and Frances (an art gallery associate; maiden name, Walsh) Lawlor; married John McClure (a professor of English), May 16, 1995; children: Abigail. Ethnicity: "Irish American." Education: Attended American College, Paris, France; University of Maryland, B.A. (English); New York University, Ph.D (English and American literature). Politics: "Social democrat." Religion: "Culturally Roman Catholic."

ADDRESSES: Home—120 South 16th St., Allentown, PA 18102. Offıce—Department of English, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA 18102. E-mail—[email protected].


CAREER: University of Michigan—Flint, visiting assistant professor of English, 1989-90; Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA, associate professor of American literature and American studies, 1990—.


MEMBER: European Association of American Studies, Modern Language Association of America, Association of American Studies, Lenni Lenape Historical Society (member of board of directors).


WRITINGS:


Recalling the Wild: Naturalism and the Closing of theAmerican West, Rutgers University Press (New Brunswick, NJ), 2000.


WORK IN PROGRESS: A study of contemporary American Indian tribal self-representations to non-native audiences.


BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:


periodicals


American Studies International, February, 2002, Stephanie Osguthorpe, review of Recalling the Wild: Naturalism and the Closing of the American West, p. 87.

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