Office: 110C Sahlstrom CC
Phone: 218-281-8273
E-mail: mccoppin@umn.edu
Resume: pdf

Courses Taught:

• Introduction to Literature
• Readings in American Life
• World Literature
• Introduction to Humanities
• Oral Interpretation and Performance Techniques
• Communication Ethics
• Composition I
• Honors Composition I
• Composition II
• Honors Composition II
• Writing In Your Profession

Research Interests: 

• American Transcendentalism
• Modernism
• Existentialism
• Service Learning
• Pedagogy of Literature and Ethics

• Modern Language Association (MLA)
• Michigan Academy
• International Society of Romanticism

Selected Publications: 

• “Horrific Obsessions: Poe’s Legacy of the Unreliable Narrator”
  - Accepted for publication in a book entitled Adapting Poe: Re-Imaginings in International and Popular Culture, published by Palgrave Macmillan. 2012
  
  
• Jesus as Modern Metaphor in Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five”
  - Accepted for publication in the journal Studies in the Literary Imagination for its Fall issue (no. 46, vol. 2). 2012
  
  
• “Salvation from Angst: Redefining Objective “Truth” for the Subjective “truth” of the Present Moment”
  - Published in the journal World Literary Review 2011
  
  
• “War, Children, and Altruism in J. D. Salinger’s Nine Stories”
  - Published in the journal Akedemeia 2011
  
  
• “Sympathy for the Other: British Attempts at Understanding the American Indian"
  - Published in the journal Symbiosis 2010
  
  
• "Personal Responsibility in Modern Literature"
  - Published in the Association for the Study of Ethical Behavior in Literature (ASEBL) Journal. 2010
  
  
• “Extending Kenneth Burke and Multicultural Education: Being Actively Revised by the Other” co-authored with Dr. Mark Huglen
  - Published in a book entitled Humanistic critique of education: Teaching and Learning as Symbolic Action. 2010
  
  
• “‘God Damn It, You’ve Got to be Kind:’ War and Altruism in the works of Kurt Vonnegut”
  - Published in a book entitled New Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut edited by David Simmons and published by Palgrave Macmillan. 2009
  
  
• “Spiritual Metamorphosis: The Transformation of Transcendentalism to Existentialism through Walt Whitman”
  - Published in a book entitled The Poetry of Walt Whitman: New Critical Perspectives edited by Kanwar Dinesh Singh and published by Atlantic Publishers. 2009
  
  
• “The Moral Path: Personal Responsibility and Altruism in the Works of Katherine Anne Porter”
  - Published in the journal The Journal of Texas Women Writers. 2009
  
  
• "Questioning Ethics: Incorporating the Novel into Ethics Courses" - in the book Teaching the Novel across the Curriculum, Edited by Colin Irvine, published by Greenwood Press
  
  
• "Sympathy for the Other: British Attempts at Understanding the American Indian" - in a book on Anti-Americanism in British Literature edited by Dr. Diana Archibald
  
  
• "Creating American Literature" - in the journal Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice . Spring 2007, Vol. 2, Issue 2. 
  
  
• "Existential Endurance: Resolution from Accepting the 'Other' in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace"  - in the journal The International Journal of Existential Literature Edited by Erik M. Grayson, Binghamton University
  
  
• "Leaning on the North" - in the June/July 2007 issue of SIRR Magazine
  
  
• "Being Actively Revised by the Other: Opposition and Incorporation" - in the book Teaching Ideas for the Basic Communication Course , Vol. 10. Ed. Barbara Hugenberg and Lawrence Hugenberg.  Dubuque , IA :  Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company for the National Communication Association, 2006. Co-authored by McCoppin, Rachel, and Mark E. Huglen
  
  
• "Existentialism in the Classroom: Practical Application to Nietzsche" -  in the journal InterCulture, Issue 3
  
  
• "Transcendental Legacies: Transcendental and Existential Tenets in Modernism and Postmodernism" in the journal Stirrings Still: The International Journal of Existential Literature Edited by Erik M. Grayson, Binghamton University

Educational Background:

• Ph.D. in English from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA
• M.A. in English from Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI
• B.A. in English from the University of Michigan - Flint, Flint, MI

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