Dr. Dominic Ording

Degrees:

• Ph.D. American Studies, Michigan State University
• M.A. Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, Michigan State University
• M.A. Philosophy, Michigan State University
• B.A. Interdisciplinary Humanities, Michigan State University

Specializations:

•  20^th and 21^st Century American Literature and Culture
• Gender and Sexuality Studies
• Cultural Studies and Critical Theory
• Writing Studies

Courses Taught:

•  English Composition
• First Year Inquiry Seminar: Who Am I?
• The Profession of English Studies
• Modern American Drama
• Contemporary American Literature
• Introduction to Literature
• Later American Literature
• The American Renaissance
• Technical Writing
• Tennessee Williams

Passions and Distractions:

•  Swimming
• The Performing Arts
• Animals, wild and domesticated alike
• Plants (especially trees, especially evergreens; ferns and moss)
• Comparative Spiritualities
• Funk

Sample Publications: 

• "Paradoxes along the Beat Journey in Kerouac's On the Road" in: American Road Literature (Critical Insights), edited by Ron Primeau.  Boston: Salem Press, 2013.
• "Michael Cunningham's Introspective and Teacherly Narrators in A Home at the End of the World."  MidAmerica XXXVII.  East Lansing: The Midwestern Press, 2010.
• "Intimate Fellows: Utopia and Chaos in the Early Post-Stonewall Gay Liberation Manifestos."  Anarchism and Utopianism (Laurence Davis and Ruth Kinna, eds.).   Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010.