Naomi Morgenstern

Biography

Naomi Morgenstern is Associate Professor of English and American Literature in the Department of English at the University of Toronto. She specializes in psychoanalytic and post-structuralist critical theory and gender studies and teaches courses in nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century American literature. She is the author of Wild Child: Intensive Parenting and Posthumanist Ethics in Contemporary North American Fiction (forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press) as well as essays on a range of American writers (Herman Melville, Toni Morrison, David Mamet, among others) and on the short stories of Alice Munro. Naomi Morgenstern is Associate Professor of English and American Literature in the Department of English at the University of Toronto. She specializes in psychoanalytic and post-structuralist critical theory and gender studies and teaches courses in nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century American literature. She is the author of Wild Child: Intensive Parenting and Posthumanist Ethics in Contemporary North American Fiction (forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press) as well as essays on a range of American writers (Herman Melville, Toni Morrison, David Mamet, among others) and on the short stories of Alice Munro.

Research Interest

She specializes in psychoanalytic and post-structuralist critical theory and gender studies and teaches courses in nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century American literature.