Martin Kreiswirth is Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Professor of English, University of Western Ontario.  He received a BA from Hamilton College (Clinton, NY), MA from the University of Chicago, and PhD from the University of Toronto.  He was founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism (1986-95) and Associate Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies, UWO, 1995-98, 1999-2002.   In 1989-90, he was a Resident Fellow at the Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change, University of Virginia, and in 1999, Visiting Professor at the  Porter Institute for Semiotics and Poetics, University of Tel Aviv.

He was awarded a SSHRC Research Grant, 1992-97, and was a member of the ACCUTE Executive in 1991-93.  He sits on the Editorial Board of Journal X and was Editorial Advisor for Literary Theory and Criticism for the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2000-2003.  He was an elected delegate to the Modern Language Association, 1996-99, and was a member of the Selection Committee for the William Riley Parker Prize, MLA, 1998-2002 (Chair, 2002-2002) and for the Barbara and George Perkins Award, Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, 2003-present.

Kreiswirth is a member of the graduate programs in English, Comparative Literature, and Theory and Criticism at UWO.  His research interests include narrative theory, literary theory, William Faulkner, critical intellectual history, Tony Morrison, interdisciplinarity, and historical fiction.

Books he has written or edited include:  The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, 2nd Edition, with Michael Groden and Imre Szeman (2004); Constructive Criticism: The Human Sciences in the Age of Theory, with Thomas Carmichael (1995); Theory Between the Disciplines: Authority/Vision/Politics, with Mark Cheetham (1995); and William Faulkner: The Making of a Novelist (1983).   He has contributed to various volumes of criticism and published articles and reviews in Poetics Today, New Literary History, American Literature, Mississippi Quarterly, Modern Fiction Studies, and Arizona Quarterly.

He is currently editing a special edition of Mississippi Quarterly on Faulkner and Multi-Textuality and working on two book projects:  Narrativity and Disciplinarity and Remapping Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha: Textuality and Transgression.

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