Megan Lynn Faragher, Ph.D.
Megan Faragher received her PhD in English Literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2012, where she specialized in 20th-century English and Irish literature. She joined Wright State University Lake Campus after completing a Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellowship at East Tennessee State University. Her research and teaching interests center on British literature between the world wars at the intersections of institutions, sociology, and culture. Her first book, Public Opinion Polling in Mid-Century British Literature: The Psychographic Turn, was published by Oxford University Press in 2021, and explored the impact of social science research in the 20th century on literature and culture. Arguing for a turn towards the materialization of interiority, the book uses a range of cultural artifacts to paint a history of the "psychographic age."
She has published over a dozen essays of peer-reviewed scholarship scholarship has been published in Textual Practice, The Space Between Journal, and Literature & History. She has contributed essays on the intersection of propaganda, social science, and literature to collections like British Writing, Propaganda, and Cultural Diplomacy in the Second World War and Beyond (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024), Naomi Mitchison: A Writer in Time (Edinburgh University Press, 2023), Humans at Work in the Digital Age: Forms of Digital Textual Labor (Routledge, 2019).
Most recently, she co-edited Mid-century women's writing: Disrupting the public/private divide (Manchester University Press, 2024). Building on work she did as co-editor on the Modernist Institutions cluster in the Modernism/modernity Print/plus platform, her next book will focus on the cultural history of managerialism in the mid-century.
Education History
PhD, English Literature, State University of New York at Buffalo (2012)
MA, State University of New York at Buffalo (2009)
BA, English & Women's Studies, Arizona State University (2006)
Publications
Books:
Co-editor, Mid-Century Women’s Writing: Disrupting the Public/Private Divide. (Manchester University Press, 2024.)
Peer-Reviewed Articles and Essays:
Megan Faragher, “Orwell and Kindness,” in The Oxford Handbook of George Orwell. Edited by Nathan Waddell. Oxford University Press, 2025, pp. 501-514
“Fire or Blood?: Aestheticizing Resistance in Naomi Mitchison’s Narratives of Slavery” in Naomi Mitchison: A Writer in Time. Ed. James Purdon. Edinburgh University Press, 2023.
Megan Faragher and D.J. Taylor, “Interview,” George Orwell Studies, v.8 no.2, 2024.
“Propaganda, Elegy and the Everyday in Britain in Pictures” in British Writing, Propaganda, and Cultural Diplomacy in the Second World War and Beyond Eds. Beatriz Lopez, James Smith, and Guy Woodward. Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.
“Camp Camouflage: The Art of Espionage in Mr. Norris Changes Trains” in Sexuality and Gender in Fictions of Espionage: Spying Undercover(s). Ed. Ann Rea. Bloomsbury Academic, 2024, pp. 25-41.
“Against Struggle & Hustle: The Form of the Queer Travel Narrative in Kate O’Brien’s Farewell Spain (1937),” Special Issue: Trans and Queer Nonfiction Prose,” Prose Studies: History, Theory, Criticism, 26 Jan. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1080/01440357.2022.2142395 (R).
“The Blitz(ed) Body: Bodily Autonomy and Institutional Reform in Susan Ertz and Virginia Woolf,” Feminist Modernist Studies, March 2022.
“Susan Ertz’s Sisyphean Women” Lost Modernists. vol. 1, no. 1, 2021.
“Nazi Zombies! The Undead in Wartime and the Iconography of Mass Persuasion,” Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural, 2021.
“Modernist Institutions.” Modernism/modernity Print Plus Platform. November 2020.
“The Fourth ‘R’ is Rooted Belief’: Rex Warner and the Politics of Revisionist Classicism.” Literature & History, vol. 28, iss. 2, 2019.
“Big Data and Universal Design in The Home Market” in Humans at Work in the Digital Age: Forms of Digital Textual Labor. Eds. Shawna Ross and Andrew Pilsch. Routledge, 2019.
“Celetoids and the City: Tabloidization of the Working Class in White Teeth and Lionel Asbo: State of England.” in Twenty-First Century British Fiction and the City. Ed. Magali Cornier. Palgrave, 2018.
“The Form of Modernist Propaganda in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Heat of the Day.” Special Issue: Elizabeth Bowen and Textual Modernity. Textual Practice. 27(1), 2013: 49-68.
Teaching
Current Position: Professor, Wright State University, Lake Campus
2019-2023: Associate Professor, Wright State University, Lake Campus
2013-2019: Assistant Professor, Wright State University, Lake Campus
2012-2013: Postdoctoral Fellow, Literature & Language, East Tennessee State University
2011-2012: Instructor, Literature and Composition, SUNY Buffalo
2009-2011; 2006-2008: Teaching Assistant, Literature and Composition, SUNY Buffalo
2008-2009: Graduate Assistant, Supervisor Dr. Damien Keane, SUNY Buffalo (2008- 2009)
