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Dr. Michael D. amey

Assistant Professor of English
Liberal Arts Division
Alexandria Campus
Northern Virginia Community College

Areas of Research and Teaching Interest: British literature from the early medieval period to the 19th century, the Arthurian legends, the history of the English language, dystopian films and fiction, literary theory and cultural criticism

Courses

College Composition I / Individual Instruction in Writing (ENG 111 / 009)

Introduction to Literature (ENG 125)

Survey of British Literature I (ENG 243)

Great Books I (HUM 111)

Great Books 2 (HUM 112)


contact information

Office:  AA 252, cubicle H2

Phone:  (703) 845-6288

Email:  mamey@nvcc.edu


education and publications

Ph.D., English, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Scotland
Dissertation:  Pursuing an Elusive Ideal:  Masculinity in the Grail Legends

M.Phil., English, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Scotland
Thesis:  Love, Sex and Conflict in the Grail Narratives of Chrétien de Troyes, Wolfram von Eschenbach, and Thomas Malory

B.A. English and German, Andrews University, Berrien Springs MI

Migrant Women and Work, ed. Anuja Agrawal.  Book Review. In Journal of Gender Studies   16:3 (November 2007).

“Living Under the Bell Jar:  Surveillance and Resistance in Yevegeny Zamyatin’s We.” In Critical Survey 17:1 (2005), 22-39.

“Clothes Make the Man:  Parzival Dressed and Undressed.” In Journal of Gender Studies 13:1 (March 2004), 63-75.

Queer Globalizations:  Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism, Eds.  Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé and Martin F. Manalansan IV.  Book Review. In Journal of Gender Studies 13:3 (November 2004).

“Constructing a Perilous Chapel:  Contesting Power Structures in Naomi Mitchison’s To the Chapel Perilous.” In Arthuriana 14:3 (Fall 2004), 69-80.