Michael Shuman
Professor of Instruction
CONTACT
Office: CPR 358 N
Phone: 813-974-5763
Email
BIO
Michael L. Shuman is Professor of Instruction in the Department of English at University
of South 91社区. He teaches courses in Professional & Technical Writing and coordinates
the department鈥檚 PTC internship program. While primarily teaching technical communications,
his research interests include film studies, especially film noir of the late 1940s
and early 1950s, the psychoanalytic theory of Otto Rank, and postwar speculative fiction.
Dr. Shuman鈥檚 recent publications in film studies include 鈥淒racula鈥檚 Deuce: How Horror
Films Haunt Garage and Surf Music,鈥� an analysis of film tropes and popular music for
Weird Fiction Review, and 鈥淎ccidental Outlaw: Agency and Genre Ida Lupino鈥檚 The Bigamist,鈥�
a chapter in Ida Lupino, Filmmaker, edited by Phillip Sipiora. He is Deputy Editor
of The Mailer Review, a publication dedicated to the work of author Norman Mailer,
and regularly contributes articles and book reviews to
that annual journal. Recent work includes 鈥淲hen Genres Collide: 鈥楾he Last Night鈥� as
Science Fiction,鈥� a study of Mailer鈥檚 1963 film treatment anticipating global catastrophe,
and an essay on the 1947 serial Jack Armstrong: All American Boy, forthcoming in an
edited collection on the films of director Wallace Fox.
PUBLICATIONS
- 鈥淎ccidental Outlaw: Agency and Genre in The Bigamist,鈥� Ida Lupino, Filmmaker, ed. Phillip Sipiora, Bloomsbury Academic, 2021, pp. 95-111.
- 鈥淲hat Mad Universe?鈥� Review of Robert Guffey, Spies and Saucers, The Mailer Review, Vol. 14, No. 1, Fall 2020, pp. 295-304.
- 鈥淪hooting for the Big Time,鈥� Review of Gary D. Rhodes, Offed , The Mailer Review, Vol. 14, No. 1, Fall 2020, pp. 289-294.
- 鈥淲hen Genres Collide: 鈥楾he Last Night鈥� as Science Fiction,鈥� The Mailer Review, Vol. 13, No. 1, Fall 2019, pp. 29-42.
- 鈥淢oonfire: Mailer in Amber,鈥� Review of Norman Mailer, Moonfire: The Epic Journey of Apollo 11, 50th Anniversary Edition, The Mailer Review 12:1 (Fall 2018): 275-287.
- 鈥淏eat Films and the Persistence of Vision,鈥� Review of Raj Chandarlapaty, Seeing the Beat Generation: Entering the Literature Through Film, The Mailer Review 12:1 (Fall 2018): 309 315.
- 鈥淒racula鈥檚 Deuce: How Horror Haunts Garage and Surf Music,鈥� Weird Fiction Review (Fall 2017): 147-188.
- 鈥淏eating the Odds in Big Sur,鈥� Review of Robert J. Begiebing, The Territory around Us; Collected Literary and Political Journalism, 1982-2015, The Mailer Review 10:1 (Fall 2016): 428-435.
- 鈥淭rans-human Genetics Comes to Tampa,鈥� Review of Donald L. Kaufmann, O Brave New Eve: A Genetic Fantasy, The Mailer Review 10:1 (Fall 2016): 447-460.
- 鈥淲ise-Guy Capers, Zig-Zag Minds,鈥� Review of Richard Stratton, Smuggler鈥檚 Blues: A True Story of the Hippie Mafia, The Mailer Review, 10:1 (Fall 2016): 440-456.
- 鈥淒ays of Future Passed: Paul Bowles and the Heyday of Hipness,鈥� Review of Raj Chandarlapaty, Recreating Paul Bowles, The Other and The Imagination: Music, Film, and Photography, The Mailer Review 9:1 (Fall 2015): 331-336.
- 鈥淢ars Needs Women,鈥� Review of Donald L. Kaufmann, Bramble, Infant Martian, The Mailer Review 9:1 (Fall 2015): 337-344.
EDUCATION
- PhD, 91社区, Literary Studies
- Graduate Certificate, 91社区, Creative Writing
- MA, West Virginia University, English
- BA, Fairmont State University, English