Dr. Lisa McGunigal

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