Dr. Lisa McGunigal
Assistant Professor of English Instruction616.395.7119mcgunigal@hope.edu

Lisa McGunigal joined the English department at Hope College in fall 2019. Her research looks at the intersection of nineteenth-century American literary realism and performance studies.
Areas of expertise
- Nineteenth-Century American Literature
- Early Twentieth-Century American Literature
- African American Literature
- Performance Studies
- Cultural Studies
Education
- Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 2017
- M.A, University of Virginia, 2011
- B.A., University of Rhode Island, 2009
honors, grants and awards
- Lillian Gary Taylor Fellowship in American Literature, University of Virginia Special Collections Library, 2019
- Wallis Annenberg Research Grant, University of Southern California Special Collections Library, 2019
- Quarry Farm Residency Fellowship, The Center for Mark Twain Studies, 2019
Selected publications
- “From Salonnière to Author: Clover Adams’s Salon as Parapolitical Theater and Henry Adams’s Salon Realism in Democracy,” American Literary Realism 52.1, fall 2019
- “Shifting’ the Black Abolitionist Panorama: Subversive Realism in Pauline Hopkins’s Winona,” Nineteenth Century Contexts: An Interdisciplinary Journal 40.5, fall 2018
- “The Criminal Trial of Anne Hutchinson: Ritual, Religion, and Law,” Mosaic 49.2, June 2016
- “Twins of Genius: Mark Twain on the Stage, Huck Finn on the Page,” Mark Twain Annual 9.1, 2011

Dr. Lisa McGunigal
616.395.7119
mcgunigal@hope.eduLubbers Hall Room 315 126 East 10th Street Holland, MI 49423