Megan Malcom-Morgan
 | MA Student |
BiographyMegan Malcom-Morgan is currently pursuing her Masters of Arts in American Literary Studies at the University of New Mexico, where her focus is on 19th and 20th century American literature. Megan has written on the following topics; romantic racism and Jeffersonian Politics in Uncle Tom’s Cabin and how that politically and racially affected the antebellum period; the misrepresentation of the letter “A” in the Scarlet Letter and its allegorical representation of the American artist; Walt Whitman as the self-declared “American Bard” and the significance of his “Yankeedoodledom” within American society; The discourse of the “Silent Negro” in 19th and early 20th century regional literature, and the bankruptcy of consumption within Hemingway’s lost generation. Megan has also conducted analytical research focusing on contemporary Native American authors and playwrights. | |
