Senior Lecturer
Location: Boren Hall 101
E-mail: crmintler@ou.edu
Catherine R. Mintler taught in the Edith Kinney Gaylord Expository Writing Program for seventeen before joining the Honors College in Fall of 2025. She serves as Core Affiliate faculty of the Carceral Studies Consortium and as affiliate faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS). She has served OU’s veteran student population by teaching for the Warrior Scholar Project (2014-18) and assisting OU students applying for Pat Tillman Scholarships (2014-present) and VSA Veteran Scholarships (2017-present). Dr. Mintler supports incarcerated writers in her mentorship of Writers Guilds at prisons across the state of Oklahoma. In 2021, she cofounded OPWAF: the Oklahoma Prison Writers and Artists Foundation with several OU colleagues.
Dr. Mintler’s research and scholarship in literary modernism explore connections between sartoriality and formal innovation in the modern novel, and the effects of this coalescence upon representations of modern identity. Her publications include a chapter on Ernest Hemingway and the female writer in the Kent State University Press series, Teaching Hemingway and Gender, and an article on F. Scott Fitzgerald and dandyism in the F. Scott Fitzgerald Review. Dr, Mintler is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship, the Annette Kolody Award, the Hemingway Society’s Smith-Reynold’s Founders Fellowship, an Expository Writing Program Research Fellowship, and Ou’s President Travel Fellowship. In June of 2025, Dr. Mintler organized and chaired a panel at the 17th International F. Scott Fitzgerald Society Conference in New York on which current and former OU Honors students presented original research related to The Great Gatsby.
Research and Teaching Interests:
American Modernism, Expatriate Literature, and the Harlem Renaissance
History and Theory of Fashion, Mannequins, and the Commodified Body
The Flâneur/Flâneuse and Dandy Figure
Theories of Visuality and Visual Culture
Women’s Literature - Women Writers
Theories of Work in America and Working-Class Literature
Carceral Studies and Prison Writing
Courses:
HON 2973 American Gangster
HON 2073 21st Century Great Gatsby
HON 2973 Legacies of Frankenstein
HON 2973 Doppelgängers & Doubles
HON 3993 Wolves of Wall Street
HON 3993 American Gothic
HON 3993 Seeing is Believing
