Dr. Catherine R. Mintler received her PhD in English and Women’s and Gender Studies, with a focus in Fashion & Identity in Literary Modernism, from the University of Illinois, Chicago. From 2017-2019, she served as Interim Director of the Expository Writing Program at the University of Oklahoma.
Dr. Mintler is Senior Lecturer in the Expository Writing Program. Since 2008, she has taught the following first year writing seminars: Fashion & Identity, What Is Work?, American Gangster: From Jay Gatsby to Jay-Z, Seeing Is Believing, Citizens!, Doppelgängers & Doubles, Wolves of Wall Street, Myth of the American Dream, and The Great Gatsby: Myth to Meme. She is currently designing the following two courses for the Expository Writing Program: Prison Writing and Peripatetic Worlds: Pilgrimage to Psychogeography.
Dr. Mintler serves on OU’s Women’s and Gender Studies Center for Social Justice Social Justice Committee, is affiliate faculty in both the OU’s Carceral Studies Consortium and Women’s and Gender Studies, is an OU Green Zone, and supports OU military students through her service on the the Pat Tillman Scholarship Committee. She has been an 2SLGTBQIA+ ally for 25 years.
Dr. Mintler recently became certified as a Mental Health First Aid Instructor, and plans to teach MHFA in the greater Norman-Oklahoma City community to help reduce stigma, promote awareness, and help people dealing with mental health challenges and their families find support. Dr. Mintler’s community service involves prison abolition and supporting and promoting the work of incarcerated writers and artists. Together with other 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.
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Dr. Mintler’s research and scholarship in literary modernism explores the connections between sartorial culture and formal innovation in the modernist novel, and the effects of this coalescence in representing modern identity. She have 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 an edited collection titled the Routledge Companion to Ernest Hemingway. Dr. Mintler will be presenting her scholarly work at the Biennial Hemingway Conference in San Sebastian and Bilbao Spain in July of 2024.
Dr. Mintler has received a National Endowment for the Humanities [NEH] 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 and the University of Oklahoma.
Dr. Mintler’s current scholarly projects-in-progress propose a) that we read The Great Gatsby as the first literary gangster novel and b) that we find in the life and writing of Ernest Hemingway evidence of an evolving, post-war, twentieth-century flâneur figure. For more info about Dr. Mintler, please visit her professional website: https://crmintler.com/.