Hampshire College

Michele Hardesty, assistant professor of U.S. literatures, received her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her Ph.D. from Columbia University.

Her teaching and research interests include the 20th century novel, political travel writing, globalization and transnational culture, graphic narrative, media studies, and American studies.

She is currently working on a project concerning U.S. writers who traveled to and wrote about conflicts in the “Third World” during the Cold War.

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Professor Hardesty will be on leave for the 2011-2012 academic year.

Affiliations
School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies

Recent Courses
HACU-0284: Reading the Graphic Novel (January 2012)
The Novel in the United States, 1900-45 (Spring 2011)
American Studies: Theory and Practice (Spring 2011)
Comics Underground: Unconventional Comics in the U.S. (Fall 2010)