{"id":2959,"date":"2025-11-05T11:42:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T11:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=2959"},"modified":"2025-11-06T17:04:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T17:04:05","slug":"michael-householder","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/facultystaff\/michael-householder\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Householder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael (Mike) Householder is a scholar of early American and transatlantic literature to 1850. He is the author of&nbsp;<em>Inventing Americans in the Age of Discovery: Narratives of Encounter&nbsp;<\/em>(Ashgate 2011). He has a BA in English and an MA in Teaching English, both from Brown University, and a PhD in English from the University of California, Irvine. In his spare time he plays bagpipes in the Macalester College Pipe Band.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Areas of Study<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Early American Literature<br>Transatlantic Literature<br>Literary Theory<br>Law and Literature<br>Bioethics and Literature (sometimes offered in Philosophy)<br>Happiness<br>Stupidity<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Spring 2026 Course<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ENGL 140 Once Upon a Crime<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":2961,"template":"","class_list":["post-2959","profile","type-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2963,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2959\/revisions\/2963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}