Mary Catherine Mueller

Teaching Associate Professor

Education

Ph.D., The University of Texas at Dallas

Mary Catherine Mueller, Ph.D., currently holds the position of Teaching Associate Professor of English in the Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences at 51�Թ��Methodist University. She teaches Holocaust Literature and other courses in the Writing and Reasoning Program. Before joining SMU, she taught Rhetoric at the University of Texas at Dallas, where she also obtained her Doctorate in Humanities – Studies of Literature, with a focus on Holocaust Studies. Throughout her Master’s and Doctoral studies, Mueller was the recipient of numerous academic scholarships, research fellowships, and grants. Her research and writings focus on the following interdisciplinary and multifaceted areas of studies: the Representations of the Holocaust in Popular Culture, Art, and Memory; Antisemitism; Holocaust Literature; Literature as Testimony; 18th to 20th Century European Literature; Transcontinental Cultural Studies of America and Europe; Comparative Literature; 20^th Century European History; Jewish Studies; the Holocaust; WWI, WWII, and Post-WWII; and the Pedagogical Approaches to Teaching Rhetoric, Composition, and Critical Reasoning. A sample of her published work includes scholarship that considers how the Holocaust is represented in various literary genres, from Holocaust memoirs to poetry written by children during the Shoah, the Holocaust. Lastly, her book, The Holocaust Short Story (Routledge) is the only scholarly book devoted entirely to representations of the Holocaust in the short story genre.

From Dallas to Los Angeles, London to Jerusalem and elsewhere, Mary Catherine Mueller, Ph.D., has presented her research and scholarship about the Holocaust to scholars, educators, and Human Rights advocates throughout the world. Whether teaching Introduction to Academic Writing, Critical Reasoning and the Holocaust, or Holocaust Literature courses, through her teaching, Mueller hopes to introduce students to authors who may in time become their teachers, to ideas that may broaden their perspectives, and to discussions that may challenge their long-held presuppositions or help them solidify what it is that they believe.

Area of Expertise

Holocaust Literature: Novels, Memoirs, Short Stories, and Poetry
Holocaust History, European History, WWI, and WWII
Representation of the Holocaust in Memory, Culture, and Art
20^th Century Literature of Atrocity; Literature of Testimony
Jewish Studies; Antisemitism; Human Rights Studies
19^th and 20^th Century European and Transatlantic Literature and Cultural Studies
Pedagogical Approaches to Teaching University-level Writing, and Literature
Rhetoric and Critical Thinking (First Year Writing)
Academic Writing and Research Methods

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