University of Redlands
Ph.D., American Literature, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, 2000
M.F.A., Creative Writing, Chapman University, Orange, CA, 1992
M.A., Comparative Literature, Chapman University, Orange, CA, 1991
B. A., Liberal Arts with Emphasis in Literature and Writing, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, 1982
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Critical Analysis
Cultural Contexts for Business
Cultural Contexts for Management
19th Century American Literature
Early American Popular Literature
American Frontier Hero in Literature and Film
Denise MacNeil, Ph.D., M.F.A., is a Professor at the University of Redlands. In her teaching, she specializes in using literature to illumine and examine managerial and business issues and themes. She is the author of The Emergence of the American Frontier Hero, 1682 – 1826: Gender, Action and Emotion (Palgrave MacMillan, 2009).
Dr. MacNeil's training and research are in the field of American literature, with a specialty in the period prior to 1914. Within this context, she examines mechanisms at work that realize literary influence on popular, lived culture, with particular emphasis on multi-cultural, multi-ethnic and social class issues and situations. Dr. MacNeil has more than ten years of research, writing and presentation experience in this field. She publishes and presents in both national and international, juried venues.
American Character through Literature
Critical Analysis
Critical Perspectives on Management
Cultural Contexts for Business
Cultural Contexts for Management
California State University, San Marcos, Department of Women's Studies, Fall 2003
Chapman University, Department of English, 1997-1998
University of Redlands, Department of Liberal Studies, 1997-1998
Claremont Graduate University, Writing Program, Drucker School of Management, 1997-1998
Scripps College, Department of Writing, 1995-1998
Golden West College, Department of English, 1990-1992
Santa Ana College, Department of Communications, 1983-1987
Cultural Anthropology, assistant editor, 1994-1997
American Ethnologist, staff associate editor, 1993-1994
Women's Studies, An Interdisciplinary Journal, assistant editor, 1993-1994
California Quarterly, The Journal of the California Poetry Society, technical editor, 1991
Hickman, Leland. Lee Senior Falls to the Floor. (Poetry collection.) Martin Nakell, ed. Orange, CA: Jahbone Press, technical editor, 1991
English: Writing and Skills. English text series for grades 7 to 12. San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, copy editor, 1986
Writer and Editor (academic, research and development, high-tech), Orange and Claremont, CA, 1982-1993
The Emergence of the American Frontier Hero, 1682-1826. Gender, Action and Emotion. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
This book identifies America's first prose bestseller, A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682) as the genesis of the American frontier hero. The study places the initial literary emergence of this heroic stereotype in Rowlandson's text. Identifying the Adamic hero's maternity in Rowlandson's text, this analysis provides a prehistory of that iconic hero that pushes back the genesis of the frontier hero from the early nineteenth-century to the mid-seventeenth century, while expanding the gender designation of that hero to encompass both masculine and feminine protagonists.
"Developing an Early American Representation of the Heroic in The Female American; or, The Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield." Success and Failure: Proceedings of the 29th APEAA Conference. Aviero, Portugal: Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos, 2009.
"Mary Rowlandson and the Foundational Mythology of the American Frontier Hero." Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 34: 625-253 (December 2005).
Excellence in Teaching Award, School of Business, University of Redlands, 2009
Center for Business, Ethics and Society Faculty Seed Grant, University of Redlands, 2004-2005
Graduate Research Assistant Award, University of Redlands School of Business, 2004-2005
Outstanding Faculty Award, University of Redlands, 2001 (nominee)
Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Redlands, 1998-99
Dissertation Fellowship, Claremont Graduate University, 1996-97
Humanities Fellow, Claremont Graduate University, 1994-95
"The Salton Sea Narratives: Shaping Collective Memory and Popular "History" in The Winning of Barbara Worth by Harold Bell Wright."
Presented at the 30th Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos Conference 19-21 February 2009, Porto, Portugal
Presented at the American Literature Association Conference, 22 May 2009, Boston, Massachusetts.
"Mothering the American Frontier Hero." American Origins Seminar. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, September 13, 2008.
"Developing an Early American Representation of the Heroic in The Female American; or, The Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield." Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos, Aveiro, Portugal, April 19, 2008.
"Emotion, Strength, and Action in The Female American by Unca Eliza Winkfield." Invited presentation. American Literature Association Symposium on American Fiction, San Diego, CA, September 29, 2006.
"Edgar Huntly and the Gendered, Racialized Heroics of Mary Rowlandson's The Captivity and the Restauration." Society of Early Americanists Fourth Biennial Meeting, Alexandria, VA, April 1, 2005.
"Edgar Huntley's Reconfigurations of Mary Rowlandson's Frontier Hero." American Literature Association Symposium on American Fiction, San Diego, CA October 9, 2004.
Early Native American Commentaries on Metacom's War. American Literature Association Conference, San Francisco, CA May 2004.
"Feminine Masculinity: Colonial Influence in the films Ethan Edwards and The Bird Cage. Invited lecture. Women's History Month Celebration, California State University, San Marcos, CA, March 2003.
