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About
Award-winning writer and professor Marilyn Moriarty is celebrated for her mastery of creative nonfiction, earning the 2014 Faulkner-Wisdom Gold Medal for her essay Swerves. Her work spans essays, fiction, and textbooks, including the acclaimed Moses Unchained, which won the AWP Prize for Creative Nonfiction.Her stories have won the Katherine Anne Porter Prize, the Peregrine Prize for fiction, and the University of Utah novella contest.
A professor of English, Moriarty’s writing appears in prestigious journals such as The Kenyon Review, The Antioch Review, and Creative Nonfiction. Her forthcoming memoir, Splintered Shadows: Recapturing a French Résistante, delves into hidden histories of World War II. Known for her evocative prose, Moriarty invites readers into vivid explorations of memory, identity, and resilience.
Marilyn Moriarty received her doctorate from the University of California, Irvine, with a dissertation on Shakespeare and a second emphasis in literary theory. She compiled the text of two Shakespeare plays for drama anthologies and co-edited a collection of essays on postmodern architecture. She is the author of Writing Science through Critical Thinking, a scientific writing textbook, and Moses Unchained, which won the Associated Writing Programs Creative Nonfiction Award. Her essays have been published in The Antioch Review, The Chattahoochee Review, Creative Nonfiction, The Kenyon Review, Raritan, River Teeth, and others. Three have been named “Notable” by editors of the Best American Essays series.
Education
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Ph.D. University of California, Irvine 1990
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M.A. University of Florida 1980
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B.A. University of Florida 1976
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Merit certificate, linguistics. Edinburgh University (Scotland)
Areas of Expertise
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Shakespeare
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Literary Theory
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Literature of the Holocaust
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Creative Nonfiction
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Creative NonFiction
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Holocaust Literature
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Literary History and Theory I
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Literature of the Renaissance
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Major British Writers I and II
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Medieval Literature
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Monsters and Marvels
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Roots of Modern Drama
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Global Shakespeare
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Madness in Shakespeare
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Shakespeare’s Bookshelf
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Shakespeare and the Theater
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Shakespeare’s Kings and Clowns
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Shakespeare’s Rome
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Shakespeare’s Tragedies
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Shakespeare’s Women
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The Stranger in Shakespeare
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Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Dramatic Literature
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Talking Animals
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Textual Construction of Gender
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[Writing about] Three Genres
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Topics in Literary Theory: Representation
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The Wild Child (short term)
Courses Taught
Achievements
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Inaugural Berry Professor of the Liberal Arts, 2002-2005.
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Three essays named “Notable” by the editors of The Best American Essays series: 2016, 2019, 2020.
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Keynote Speaker, P.O.W./M.I.A. Day, Bedford D-Day Memorial. September 21, 2018.
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Faulkner-Wisdom Writing Competition. First place in the essay category. Fall, 2014.
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Winner of the Associated Writing Programs (AWP) Creative Nonfiction Award 1995
Shakespeare Literary Theory Literature of the Holocaust Creative Nonfiction