
Gretchen Comba
Teaching Professor
gccomba@vcu.edu
(804) 828-1331
Anderson 201
Education
BA Florida State University
MA Virginia Commonwealth University
MFA University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Research/Teaching Focus
Creative writing (fiction); twentieth-century U.S. literature; U.S. women writers
Book
The Stillness of the Picture: Stories. Tucson: Kore Press, 2016.
Recent/Selected Publications
“An ‘Unlikely’ Intersectionalist: Black Feminist Ethics in William Maxwell’s Time Will Darken It.” MidAmerica: The Yearbook of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature XL (2013): 124–139.
“Chronology.” F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context. Ed. Bryant Mangum. New York: Cambridge UP, 2013. xxi–xxxviii.
“William Maxwell: A Checklist of the Primary Sources.” Resources for American Literary Study 32 (2009): 267–96.
“The Art of Atonement: The Emergence of the Jewish Character in William Maxwell’s Short Fiction.” MidAmerica: The Yearbook of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature XXXV (2008): 66–79