Department of English

Maureen Corrigan is Critic in Residence and a Lecturer in the Department of English. She is an expert in 19th century British Literature; Women's Literature (special focus on autobiography);
Popular Culture; Detective Fiction; Contemporary American Literature; Anglo-Irish Literature.

She received her Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and her B.A. from Fordham University.

Publications Corrigan has written include: Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books (Random House, 2005), "David Copperfield" in The Book that Changed My Life (Gotham Books, 2006). She was Associate Editor (with Robin Winks) and Contributor to Mystery & Suspense Fiction (2 vols., Scribner, 1999) which won an Edgar Award for Criticism from The Mystery Writers of America. For the past 18 years, Corrigan has been the book critic for the Peabody Award-winning program, "Fresh Air," heard nationally on NPR. She is also a columnist for Book World in The Washington Post, and a regular contributor to Newsday. Other reviews and essays have been published in The Village Voice, The New York Times, The Nation, The New York Observer and The Philadelphia Inquirer. She serves on the Advisory Panel of The New American Heritage Dictionary and as an Advisor to the National Endowment of the Arts' "Big Read" Project. She has served as judge and chair for the LA Times Book Award (mystery and suspense division).