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EC 120 American Literature
EC 104 Introduction to Communications
EC 290 Research Methods
Office hours by appointment in PAB 120W or over Zoom
Modern and contemporary literature, film, popular culture, queer theory, ecocriticism
Program Chair, English & Communications
Short Bio:
Mica Hilson earned his MA in English and a BA in Mathematics from Emory University at age 18, then went on to earn his PhD in English from Indiana University. At AUA, he teaches the first-year course in Communications and the fourth-year Research Methods and Capstone courses, along with classes in American Literature and Discourse Analysis. His research on modern and contemporary literature, culture, and critical theory has appeared in a variety of scholarly journals, including The Comparatist, Doris Lessing Studies, and The Harold Pinter Review, as well as numerous essay collections, ranging from Security and Hospitality in Literature and Culture to The Ethics and Rhetoric of Invasion Ecology.
Publications:
“Toxic Masculinity in Gay Erotic Fiction” in The Routledge Companion to Masculinity in American Literature and Culture, ed. Lydia Cooper. New York: Routledge (2022).
“‘The kind of person who would mess with a kid’: Cultural Fantasies of Stranger-Danger and AM Homes’ ‘Looking for Johnny’.” The Comparatist 45 (2021).
“Networks, Desire and Risk Management in Gay Contagion Fiction” in Embodying Contagion: The Viropolitics of Horror and Desire in Contemporary Discourse, eds. Sandra Becker, Megen de Bruin-Mole, and Sara Polak. Chicago: U of Chicago Press (2021).
“Terrifying Odysseys and Pleasurable Detours: Sexuality and Xenophobia in Road Trip and Eurotrip” in Our Fears Made Manifest: Essays on Terror, Trauma, and Loss in Film, 1998-2019, ed. Ashley Jae Carranza. Jefferson: McFarland (2021).
“ ‘The Damned Don’t Cry’: Melancholia and White British Masculinity in 1980s Synthpop Music.” de genere: Journal of Literary, Postcolonial, and Gender Studies 6 (2020).
“The Cost of Whimsy in Mood Indigo and The Grand Budapest Hotel” in Re:Focus: The Works of Michel Gondry, eds. Jennifer Kirby and Marcelline Block. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP (2020).
“Slipping Queer Under the Radar” in Curricular Innovations: LGBT Literatures and the New English Studies, eds. William P. Banks and John Pruitt. New York: Peter Lang (2019).
“Reimagining the Family Tree: Property, Biopolitics, and Queer Kinship in David Malouf’s Remembering Babylon and Patrick White’s Riders in the Chariot.” Pacific Coast Philology 53.2 (2018).
“’Rubbish of All Kinds’: Domesticity, Squalor, and Squatting in Doris Lessing’s Fiction.” Doris Lessing Studies 36.1 (2018).
“Bath-Time and Cruising Time: Temporality, Tension, and Release in Pinter.” Harold Pinter Review 1 (2017): 50-65.
“The Forces of Habit and the Ethics of Self-Composture.” The Comparatist 40 (2016): 128-43.
“Rooting for the Unrooted: Invasive Species and Uncanny Ecosystems in Peter Carey’s ‘Exotic Pleasures’” in The Ethics and Rhetoric of Invasion Ecology, eds. James Stanescu and Kevin Cummings. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016. 141-58.
“A Dwarf at the Table: Hospitality and the Non-Normate Body in Modern Literature” in Security and Hospitality in Literature and Culture, eds. Jeffrey Clapp and Emily Ridge. London: Routledge, 2015.
“‘The odd man out in the family?’ Queer Throwbacks and Reproductive Futurism in The Fifth Child” Reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism Yearbook 2013, Vol. 370, ed. Lawrence J. Trudeau. Farmington Hills: Cengage/Gale, 2015.
“A Doctor for Who(m)?: Queer Temporalities and the Sexualized Child.” Co-written with Adrianne Wadewitz. Bookbird. 2014.
“Sharing Economies and Value Systems on the Nifty Archive” in The Feminist and Queer Information Studies Reader, eds. Rebecca Dean and Patrick Keilty. Los Angeles: Litwin, 2013.
“‘The odd man out in the family?’ Queer Throwbacks and Reproductive Futurism in The Fifth Child” in Doris Lessing Studies 30.1 (2011): 18-22.
“The ‘Problem’ of William Styron in The Confessions of Nat Turner” in Literary Griot: International Journal of Black Expressive Cultural Studies 14.1-2 (2002): 103-23.
“The Little Revolution That Could: What can the world learn from Armenia’s successful uprising against a would-be strongman?” Slate 10 May 2018.