Maggie McKinley
Literary scholar and critic, associate professor of English at Harper College, and a leading voice of the current generation of Mailer studies. Author of Understanding Norman Mailer (2017) and editor of Norman Mailer in Context (2021), and an officer of the Norman Mailer Society.
Maggie McKinley is an associate professor of English at Harper College, where she teaches composition and American literature. She is the author of Masculinity and the Paradox of Violence in American Fiction, 1950–75, and her work has appeared in Studies in American Jewish Literature, Philip Roth Studies, and The Mailer Review, among other places.
Within Mailer studies, McKinley wrote the first single-author critical survey of Mailer’s complete career, Understanding Norman Mailer (University of South Carolina Press, 2017), and edited the multi-author Norman Mailer in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2021), to which she also contributed the Introduction, the chapter “Violence,” and the closing “Afterword: Mailer after #MeToo” (McKinley 2021). She contributed a jacket note to J. Michael Lennon‘s collection Mailer’s Last Days (2022), describing it as “an inspiring testament to the value of Lennon’s literary life”.
She served as vice president of the Norman Mailer Society around 2017 and by 2021 was its president; she is also program director of the Philip Roth Society (McKinley 2021). Her other books include Masculinity and the Paradox of Violence in American Fiction (Bloomsbury).
Related pages
- Understanding Norman Mailer | Norman Mailer in Context | Mailer's Last Days: New and Selected Remembrances of a Life in Literature | Norman Mailer Society