Assistant Professor

Office

Humanities 242 F
Loyola University Maryland
4501 N. Charles St.
Baltimore, MD 21210

Phone: 410-617-2126
magirard@loyola.edu

Education

• Ph.D., University of Illinois

Courses Taught

• EN 101 Understanding Literature
• EN 203 Major Writers: American Lit
• EN 206 Major Writers: Gender, Culture, Madness
• EN 372 Modern British and American Poetry
• EN 377 Twentieth Century Lit: Bohemians
• EN 383 Modern Lit: Poety in Public
• EN 409 Honors Seminar: Special Topics

Recent Publications

• “‘Jeweled Bindings’: Modernist Women’s Poetry and the Limits of Sentimentality.” Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry. Ed. Cary Nelson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 96-119.
• “‘How autocratic our country is becoming’: The Sentimental Poetess at War.” Journal of Modern Literature 32.2 (Winter 2009): 41-64.
• "The Art of Rejection.” (Co-authored with Cristina Stanciu). The Chronicle of Higher Education. 22 Jan. 2012. Web.>
• Slam, Spoken Word, and the Democratization of Poetry." Review of Susan Somers-Willett The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry (University of Michigan Press, 2009). Poetry & Popular Culture. Web.