PEER-REVIEWED WRITING
“Revising Race in William Faulkner’s manuscript of Absalom, Absalom! (1936) and Light in August (1932),” Faulknerian Anniversaries, University of Mississippi Press (Accepted, Forthcoming July 2026).
“Mary Unger, Reading the Renaissance: Black Women’s Literary Reception and Taste in Chicago 1932-1953.” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, (Forthcoming Summer 2026).
“The Woman's Literary Club of Baltimore Archive: recovering the works of a literary community (Review Essay),” co-authored with Alice Martin, Reviews in Digital Humanities (Accepted, Forthcoming July 2026).
“Laura E. Helton, Scattered and Fugitive Things (Review Essay),” Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing News (February 2025).
PUBLIC WRITING
“Tamara Lanier’s From These Roots: My Fight with Harvard to Reclaim My Legacy” Los Angeles Review of Books (Accepted, Forthcoming Summer 2025).
“The Gun Violence Memorial at the Institute of Contemporary Art” Boston Art Review (Forthcoming Fall 2025).
“Remembering Danielle Legros Georges and the Dark Room Collective” Boston Art Review (July 2025).
“Is Repair Possible in the Museum?” Insurrect: Radical Thinking in Early American Studies (December 2024).
TEACHING
I am a Writing Fellow at Boston University where I teach first year writing courses. For a copy of my syllabi or student recommendations, please email me at fallonm@bu.edu.
Image Credit: Teju Cole, Blindspot, 2017.
Image Credit: Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly, 2020.
CONTEMPORARY AUTOBIOGRAPHY
WR 120, Boston University
Fall 2025
Our class addresses the flourishing of autobiography in the last ten years — its usage on TikTok, celebrity ghostwriting, autofiction, memoir, and traditional and experimental autobiography. We address questions such as: What are autobiographies for? How do we tell our stories now? What is the difference between fiction and autobiography? As part of the course, we use generative AI to experiment with how a computer may narrate a life. Our course includes a field trip at the Houghton Library at Harvard University, and involves a discussion of how curators use documents to interpret writers’ lives.
THE ESSAY
WR 120, Boston University
Spring 2025
Our class explores the burgeoning of the essay in the last 50 years. We read its usage in magazines, blogs, zines, podcasts, and social media and engage with its appearance in memoirs, journalism, and criticism. We ask questions such as: How has the essay been used to express ourselves, change minds, and promote justice or inequality? We organize our class around a sample of many different essays and encourage students to write creative responses to them. As part of the course, we use generative AI to experiment with how a computer and aggregated data complicate the form.