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Scholarly Activities

ANDREW MACDONALD
Professor, English

Degrees Earned
Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin, 1972
M.A., Tulane University, 1966
B.A., Tulane University—English, 1965

Books

  • Scott Turow—A Critical Companion (with G. Macdonald). Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press; 2005.
  • Jane Austen on Screen (co-edited with G. Macdonald). London: Cambridge University Press, October 2003.
  • Shaman or Sherlock: The Native American in Recent Detective Fiction (with G. Macdonald). Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press; 2001.
  • Shapeshifting: Images of Native Americans in Recent Popular Fiction (with G. Macdonald and one chapter by MaryAnn Sheridan). Westport, Greenwood Press, 2000.
  • Howard Fast. Connecticut: Greenwood Press, September 1996. Also available on CD ROM.
    Mastering Writing Essentials. New York: Prentice Hall, Simon & Schuster Education Group, February 1996 (446 pages). 192 page Teachers Manual, December 1996.

Recent Book Chapters/Sections

  • "P. D. James,” British Mystery Writers, Dictionary of Literary Biography. Bruccoli Press, 2003.
  • "James McClure” (with G. Macdonald), British Mystery Writers, Dictionary of Literary Biography. Bruccoli Press, 2003.
  • “Adam Hall” (with G. Macdonald), British Mystery Writers, Dictionary of Literary Biography. Bruccoli Press, 2003.
  • "Maxine Hairston and the Good Old Boys: Teaching with the Enemy." Against the Grain: In Honor of Maxine Hairston. Ed. Ralph Voss. 2001. (with Andrew Macdonald and Katherine Staples)
  • "Ethnic Detectives in Popular Fiction: New Directions for an American Genre," Diversity and Detective Fiction: Race, Gender, Ethnicity. Kathleen Klein, Editor. Bowling Green Popular Press, January 2000. (68 pages)

Recent Film/Script Reviews

  • “Adapting Proulx’s THE SHIPPING NEWS for the Screen” (with G. Macdonald), Creative Screenwriting, Spring 2002: 18-19.
  • “Writing during the War: PRISONER OF THE MOUNTAIN as a model” (with G. Macdonald), Creative Screenwriting, Fall 2001: 70-71.
  • “John Harrison’s DUNE, the Mini-series: A Character-Centered Maturation Story” (with G. Macdonald), Creative Screenwriting, Fall 2000.
  • “Heroism and Romance in ALL THE PRETTY HORSES” (with G. Macdonald), Creative Screenwriting, Fall 2000: 44-46.
  • “Hugh Selby’s REQUIEM FOR A DREAM: Deconstructing American Fantasies” (with G. Macdonald), Creative Screenwriting, Fall 2000.
  • “Imposter: Sympathy for the Cyborg, or What Does It Mean To Be Human” (with G. Macdonald), Creative Screenwriting, Summer 2000.
  • “The Perfect Storm" and “Writing the Sea: An Interview with Bill Wittliff” (with G. Macdonald), Creative Screenwriting, Summer 2000: 67-73.
  • “Cider House Rules” (with G. Macdonald), Creative Screenwriting, Spring 2000: 16-18.
        * “The Perfect Storm” and “Writing the Sea: An Interview with Bill Wittliff.” (with G. Macdonald), Creative Screenwriting, Summer 2000: 67-73.
  • “Cider House Rules” (with G. Macdonald), Creative Screenwriting, Spring 2000: 16-18.

Recent Journal Articles

  • “Updating Emma: Balancing Satire and Sympathy in Clueless” (with G. Macdonald), Creative Scriptwriting, Summer 2000: 22-30.
  • “Using Literature to teach ESL Writing.” (with G. Macdonald), Intensive English Programs Newsletter, in two parts: Fall 1999; Spring 2000.
  • “Acculturating IEP Students to Standardized Test Writing” (with G. Macdonald), Intensive English Programs Newsletter, Spring 1999.
  • “Before the X-Files:Kolchak and the Cassandra Complex” (with G. Macdonald), Creative Screenwriting, Summer 1998: 47-54.
  • “[Re]writing Shakespeare for Film: Devore/ Zeffirelli’s Hamlet versus Branaugh’s Hamlet” (with G. Macdonald), Creative Screenwriting, July/August 1998: 42-57.

Recent Articles in Books

  • “Volpone,” Encyclopedia of Literary Place Pasadena, California: Salem Press, 2002.
  • “Bartholomew Faire,” Encyclopedia of Literary Place Pasadena, California: Salem Press, 2002.
  • “Perfect Storm,” Beacham’s Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction. Vol. 14. New York: Gale Press, 2001.
  • “Personal Injury.” Beacham’s Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction. Vol. 13. New York: Gale Press, 2001.
  • “Andrei Codrescu.” Contemporary Novelists. London: St. James Press, 2000.
  • "Political and Social Views in Crime and Mystery Fiction" (with G. Macdonald), Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing. Oxford Press, 1999: 346-347.
  • “Cool Hand Luke” (with G. Macdonald), The Sixties in America, Salem Press, 1998.
  • “Telyric.” Masterplots: Poetry, Supplement. Salem Press, 1998.

Papers Read at Professional Conferences

  • "The Shift from Print to Screen on Standardized Professional Examinations" (with G. Macdonald), SETESOL Conference, New Orleans, September 2003
  • "Confronting Texts: Changes in Perspective" (with G. Macdonald), First Year Experience International Conference, Vancouver, Canada, July 2003
  • Interweaving Past and Present: Oral versus Print History in Margaret Cole's The Storyteller,” 33 rd Annual Popular Culture Association and the 25 th Annual American Culture Association Conventions, Spring 2003
  • “The First Year Experience Assimilation: Learning From International Student Models” (with G. Macdonald), First Year Experience International Conference, Bath, England, July 2002
  • “Converting Stories into Scripts for Reading-speaking Competence” (with G. Macdonald), International TESOL Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, Spring 2002
  • “Accommodating Learning-Style Differences in ESL Writing Classes” and “Using Literary Models for Autobiographical Writing: Varied Approaches to Personal Stories” (both with G. Macdonald), International TESOL Conference, St. Louis, MO., Spring 2001
  • “Mythologizing a Native American Past and Future Through Science Fiction” (Panel); paper, "Science Fiction Featuring Native Americans in the Future," Western Literary Association Conference in Norman, Oklahoma, Fall 2000
  • “Writing Strategies for Using the Internet,” International TESOL Conference in Vancouver (with G. Macdonald), Spring 2000

Updated: July 21, 2008