Michael Flynn

• Nineteenth-century British literature and culture
• The professionalization of authorship
• Literary rivalry, intertextuality, and parody
• Book history, especially serialization
• Victorian science
• Victorian religion
• Victorian art

• Ph.D. (Washington University in St. Louis, 2006)

500-level:       

• The Romantic Novel
• The Mid-Victorian Novel
• The Sensation Novel
• The Late-Victorian Novel
• The Neo-Victorian Novel
• Darwinian Theory and Narrative Form
• British India / Indian Britain
• Serial Storytelling
• Metafiction and Metafilm

400-level:       

• Survey of the English Novel I
• Survey of the English Novel II
• Charles Dickens and the Professionalization of Authorship
• Charles Dickens and Serial Form
• William Makepeace Thackeray
• The Brontës
• Wilkie Collins
• Oscar Wilde
• Joseph Conrad

300-level:       

• Survey of English Literature II
• Romantic Poetry
• Victorian Poetry
• Victorian Fantastic Fiction

200-level:       

• Introduction to Literary Criticism
• Reading and Writing About Texts
• Introduction to Literature and Culture
• Introduction to Film

• “Inattentive Detection: Teaching Victorians How to Read Sensation Fiction.” Sensation Fiction and Education, edited by Andrew Green and Jessica Cox, Routledge, forthcoming 2027.
• “Liking David Copperfield.” My Victorian Novel: Critical Essays in the Personal Voice, edited by Annette R. Federico, U of Missouri P, 2020, pp. 213-229.
• “E. S. Dallas, Mid-Victorian Individualism, and the Form of the Book Review.” Nineteenth-Century Prose, vol. 43, no. 1/2, 2016, pp. 49-64.
• “E. S. Dallas and Trollope’s Vicar of Bullhampton.” Notes and Queries, vol. 261, no. 2, 2016, pp. 258-61. Oxford Journals, doi: 10.1093/notesj/gjw069.
• “Dickens, Rosina Bulwer Lytton, and the ‘Guilt’ of Literature and Art.” Dickens Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 1, 2012, pp. 68-80.
• “Pendennis, Copperfield, and the Debate on the ‘Dignity of Literature.’” Dickens Studies Annual, vol. 41, 2010, pp. 151-89.
• “Parodies for the Rail: Dombey and Son, Vanity Fair, and the Class-Coding of Victorian Realism.” Double Vision: Literary Palimpsests of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, edited by Darby Lewes, Lexington Books, 2008, pp. 173-203. (Reprinted in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, edited by Lawrence J. Trudeau, vol. 307, Gale, 2015, pp. 135-52.)
• “Novels by Literary Snobs: The Contentious Class-Coding of Thackerayan Parody.” Dickens Studies Annual, vol. 36, 2005, pp. 199-228.
• “The Transatlantic Grudges of William Makepeace Thackeray and G. P. R. James.” Notes and Queries, vol. 250, no. 4, 2005, pp. 476-78.