On a Scholarly Life

A Conversation with Maggie McKinley

Authors

  • Phillip Sipiora University of South Florida Author

Keywords:

Maggie McKinley, masculinity, violence, Mailer in Context, Norman Mailer Society, interview

Abstract

Phillip Sipiora talks with Maggie McKinley, President of The Norman Mailer Society, about her scholarly life: how her graduate work led from New Journalism to Mailer, masculinity, and violence; her reading of Hannah Arendt; her edited volume Mailer in Context; her work with the Society; and her future projects, including work on Joan Didion.

Author Biography

  • Phillip Sipiora, University of South Florida

    Phillip Sipiora is Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of South Florida. He has lectured nationally and internationally on twentiethcentury literature and film and is the Founding Editor of The Mailer Review. He is the author or editor of five books, including Mind of An Outlaw (Random House, 2013). He has published approximately three dozen scholarly essays, including readings of the films of Wallace Fox, Joseph H. Lewis, Stanley Kubrick, Ida Lupino, Edgar Ulmer, Robert Wiene, and Billy Wilder. He is the editor of a forthcoming volume: Ida Lupino, Filmmaker (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2021), and forthcoming essays, “Norman Mailer’s Literary Criticism” in Norman Mailer in Context (Cambridge UP, 2021), “Bathos in the Bowery,” in Wallace Fox and Social Protest (U of Edinburgh P, 2021), and “Ethical Encounter(s): Narrative Performance in The Great Gatsby and The Sun Also Rises” (2021).

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Published

2020-10-15

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 1 (2020)

Section

Interviews

How to Cite

Sipiora, Phillip. “On a Scholarly Life: A Conversation With Maggie McKinley”. The Mailer Review, vol. 14, no. 1, Oct. 2020, pp. 64–78, https://mailerreview.org/journal/article/view/721.