Maggie McKinley

Maggie McKinley is Professor of English at Harper College, where she teaches courses in composition and American literature. She is the author of Masculinity and the Paradox of Violence in American Fiction, 1950-75 (Bloomsbury 2015) and Understanding Norman Mailer (U of SC Press 2017), and the editor of Norman Mailer in Context and Philip Roth in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2021).

Selected Publications

• McKinley, Maggie (2019). "A Necessary Undoing: The Implications of Violence in Richard Wright's Native Son and The Outsider". Violence from Slavery to #Black Lives Matter: African American History and Representation. Routledge.
• — (2019). "Testosterone and Sympathy". Philip Roth Studies. 15 (1).
• — (2017). Understanding Norman Mailer. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press.
• — (2017). Foreword. Why Are We in Vietnam?. By Mailer, Norman. New York: Random House. pp. ix–xviii.
• — (2017). "Mailer Interrogates Machismo: Self-Reflexive Commentary in Wild 90 and Why Are We in Vietnam?". In Bozung, Justin. The Cinema of Norman Mailer.
• — (2015). Masculinity and the Paradox of Violence in American Fiction, 1950-75. London: Bloomsbury Academic. The chapter “Existentialism, Violent Liberation, and Racialized Masculinities: Norman Mailer’s “The White Negro” and An American Dream” is reprinted here.
• — (2014). "Blood, Tradition, and the Distortion of Ritual in Philip Roth's Indignation". Studies in American Jewish Literature. 33 (2).
• — (2013). "Aging, Remembrance, and Testimony in the Later Fiction of Roth & Bellow". In Pozorski, Aimee. Critical Insights: Philip Roth. Salem Press.