Dr. CR. Mintler joined the University of Oklahoma Honors College in Fall 2026 after teaching ais Senior Lecturer in the Edith Kinney Gaylord Expository Writing Program from 2008-2025. From 2017-2019 she served as Interim Director of the Expository Writing Program. She received her PhD in English and Women’s and Gender Studies with a focus on sartorial aesthetics and modernism, what she refers to as “sartorial modernism,” from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her work investigates connections between sartorial culture and formal innovation in the modernist novel, and the effects of that coalescence representing modern identity.
Dr. Mintler is affiliate faculty in Womens and Gender Studies, and a Core Board member of the Carceral Studies Consortium. Her university service extends to service on the WGS Center for Social Justice and Pat Tillman Scholarship committees, and is Faculty Advisor for The Webster Book Clubs sponsored by the Honors College. She supports and engages in community service involving prison abolition and supports the creative work of incarcerated writers and artists. Together with colleagues from OU’s Expository Writing Program and the Langston University English Department, she cofounded OPWAF: the Oklahoma Prison Writers and Artists Foundation. OPWAF supports and mentors Writers Guilds and Artists Guilds created by writers and artists incarcerated in the Oklahoma state prison system.
Dr. Mintler has published on F. Scott Fitzgerald and dandyism in the F. Scott Fitzgerald Review (2011) and Ernest Hemingway and the female writer in the Kent State University Press series, Teaching Hemingway and Gender (2016). Forthcoming in 2024 is an invited chapter about Hemingway, settler colonialism, and the flâneur figure in The Routledge Companion to Ernest Hemingway. Her current book project, Modern “Man of the Crowd”: Ernest Hemingway’s Post-War Flâneur, cites examples from Hemingway’s life and work in support of a modern, post-war version of the nineteenth-century flâneur. Both Hemingway and his fictional avatars become what she calls post-war wounded flâneur figures, engaging in flånerie with a different kind of detachment than their predecessors, having witnessed the modern spectacle of war destroy the very cities that produced the original flâneur in the first place. As a person marked and changed by war, the post-war flâneur observes, perambulates, and writes about cityscapes and landscapes as places marked and changed by war.
Dr. Mintler has received a National Endowment for the Humanities [NEG] Fellowship, an Annette Kolodny Award, and a Smith Reynolds Founders Fellowship from the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society, as well as two research and scholarship fellowships from the Expository Writing Program.