Michael Lee Gardin   

Academic Interests: Female American Writers, Contemporary Poetry, Literary Theory

Current research project(s): "Morrison and Mothers: A Discussion of Culture, Mothering, and Love in The Bluest Eye and Beloved"

Conference Presentations: April 2008 "Exploring Gender in the Narrator of Aphra Behn's Oroonoko; or the Royal Slave"

Hometown: Plano, Texas (North of Dallas)

Previous degrees: BA from Texas State University, San Marcos

Current Hobbies:   Dancing, cooking, and web design

Favorite Writers: Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, Anne Sexton, Sandra Cisneros, Anne Carson, Toni Morrison

Ultimate Vacation: I really want to visit Rome right now; however, I love to travel so any destination is fine with me!

Email: michael.gardin@utsa.edu