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Expert Source: Michelle Disler, Ph.D.


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Michelle Disler’s writing, research, and teaching interests include popular culture and the epistolary essay, and she counts M.F.K. Fisher, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Gertrude Stein, and William Hazlitt among the writers who most influence her work. Selections from Disler’s creative dissertation, “Archipelago,” have appeared in journals including Lake Effect, Seneca Review, The Laurel Review, Columbia, and Painted Bride Quarterly. She recently made an online recording of selections from her “James Bond Alphabet” for “Wired for Books” and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize in Nonfiction 2008 for her creative work on James Bond.

Education:

  • B.A., Grand Valley State University
  • M.A., Western Michigan University
  • Ph.D., Ohio University (creative nonfiction)

Areas of Expertise:

  • Classical and epistolary essays
  • Ian Fleming’s “James Bond” novels and other aspects of popular culture studies
  • Cross-genre creative writing
  • Prose poems
  • 20th century women writers
  • Narrative and lyric prose writing

Selected Publications:

  • “Building,” The Massachusetts Review
  • The Bond Anatomy: “Kiss,” “Heart,” “Tired,” Hotel Amerika
  • “Witness,” appearing in North Dakota Quarterly
  • Classical Essay Roundtable Discussion, Fourth Genre
  • The James Bond Alphabet: “‘S’ is for Sum” Painted Bride Quarterly
  • The James Bond Alphabet: “‘B’ is for Bait,” “‘C’ is for Close Shaves,” “‘M’ is for Marriage,” Gulf Coast
  • The James Bond Alphabet: “‘U’ is for Unspecified,” Seneca Review, vol. XXXVII, no. 1
  • The James Bond Alphabet: “ ‘A’ is for Approx. no. of times,” “ ‘G’ is for Guide,” “ ‘T’ is for True and False,” and “ ‘V’ is for Vanished,” The Laurel Review, vol. 41, issue 1
  • ar•chi•pel•a•go, Lake Effect: A Journal of the Literary Arts, vol. 11, Spring 2007
  • “Blue,” Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, issue 43, 2006