P.G.C.E. (Post Graduate Certificate in Education) University of Nottingham, UK
B.A., English and Music, West London Institute, UK
Introduction
Michelle Buchberger is a Professor in the Department of Communication, Humanities, and Professional Studies. She is also an affiliate in the English and GIC departments and teaches classes in Professional Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies, English Literature, and Film.
Recent publications reflect her interdisciplinary interests, and they include the co-authored Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies with Repko and Szostak (2025, 4th ed.), book chapters “Interdisciplinary advising” (co-authored with Julia Pond) in the Edward Elgar Handbook of Interdisciplinary Teaching and Administration, ed. Szostak, (2024), and "Parasite" and Identity in the 'End Times': An Interpretation through the Lens of Slavoj Žižek” in Parasite: A Philosophical Exploration On the film Parasite by Bong Joon-Ho, edited by Botz-Bornstein and Stamatellos, and journal articles, “The Cult of the Charismatic Leader: D. H. Lawrence’s Leadership Novels and the Authoritarian Temptation”, D. H. Lawrence Review, (2023); “Creating a Reusable Learning Object to Assist with Advising: An Instructional Design Model”, Journal of Excellence in College Teaching, (2019); “The influence of D.H. Lawrence on John Fowles: Blood consciousness, Women, and Heraclitus”, Journal of Literary Studies, (2019), and “Something wrong with me”: Transatlantic Neoliberalism in Jonathan Franzen’s "Freedom" and Ian McEwan’s "Saturday" Symbiosis – A Journal of Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Relations, (2019).
Courses Taught
BIS 201 Introduction to Integrative Studies
BIS 301 Integrative Studies Seminar II
ENG 112 Composition and Literature
ENG 224 Digital Writing and Rhetoric: Composing with Words, Images and Sounds
