Mormon Literature Database - Austin, Michael

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Michael Austin Michael Austin teaches Eighteenth-Century British Literature, World Literature, and Rhetoric at Shepherd College in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, where his wife, Karen, is Director of the Writing Center. While in graduate school at the University of California at Santa Barbara, he became interested in Mormon Literature and wrote the article, "The Function of Mormon Literary Criticism at the Present Time," which won the 1995 Association for Mormon Letters Award for Criticism. He currently writes a column in Sunstone on Mormonism and Literature and has, in addition to his work on this topic, published articles on Saul Bellow, Daniel Defoe, Abraham Cowley, and the literature of the Old Testament. View Works by this Person
Also Known As	Mike Austin
Birth Date	1966
Awards	Recipient, Award in Criticism, 1995, Association for Mormon Letters

Works by Michael Austin Sort by title	Year	Genre
Swifts of Our Own	1999	Criticism
Mormon Home Literature	1998	Criticism
Mormon Pageants	1998	Criticism
On the Pleasures of Pain in Devotional Discourse	1998	Criticism
Troped by the Mormons: The Persistence of 19th-Century Mormon Stereotypes in Contemporary Detective Fiction	1998	Criticism
Theology for the Approaching Millennium: Angels in America, Activism, and the American Religion	1997	Criticism
Two Cheers for the Violent Literati	1997	Criticism
Whither Our Great Writers	1997	Criticism
The Function of Mormon Literary Criticism at the Present Time	1995	Criticism
Hero Sings the Blues	1991	Criticism
Meditations on the Book of Esther	2001	Personal Essay
[Review of] Altmann's Tongue by Brian Evenson	1995	Review
[Review of] Taylor-Made Tales by Samuel W. Taylor	1995	Review
A Majority of One	1989	Short Story