Maggie McKinley

Maggie McKinley is an Associate 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 and Understanding Norman Mailer. Her work has also been published in Studies in American Jewish Literature, Philip Roth Studies, Roth and Celebrity (Lexington Press), and Critical Insights: Philip Roth (Salem Press). She is currently editing a collection entitled Philip Roth in Context for Cambridge University Press.

Selected Publications

• McKinley, Maggie (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.
• — (2017). Understanding Norman Mailer. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press.