Michael Householder
Visiting Assistant Professor, English and Creative Writing
Early American Literature, Transatlantic Literature, Literary Theory Law and Literature, Bioethics and Literature (sometimes offered in Philosophy), Happiness, and Stupidity
Old Main 217
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Michael (Mike) Householder is a scholar of early American and transatlantic literature to 1850. He is the author of Inventing Americans in the Age of Discovery: Narratives of Encounter (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.
Areas of Study
Early American Literature
Transatlantic Literature
Literary Theory
Law and Literature
Bioethics and Literature (sometimes offered in Philosophy)
Happiness
Stupidity
Spring 2026 Course
ENGL 140 Once Upon a Crime