Snow at the Arc, Paris
About
Marilyn E. Moriarty is an award-winning writer and professor whose work spans creative nonfiction, fiction, and literary scholarship. Her writing appears in leading journals including The Kenyon Review, Creative Nonfiction, Raritan, and River Teeth with three essays recognized as "Notable" in The Best American Essays series. A recipient of the AWP Prize, Faulkner-Wisdom Gold Medal, Peregrine Prize, Katherine Anne Porter Prize, and University of Utah Novella Prize, Moriarty has been a Visiting Writer at the American Academy in Rome. She holds a Ph.D. from University of California, Irvine, and taught literature at Hollins University.
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