Rate My Professor Megan Becker

Becker's key publication is the book Julia Kristeva and Literary Theory (Palgrave, 2005), which garnered the UNLV College of Liberal Arts’ William Morris Award for Excellence in Research (2006). She has authored essays in New Literary History, Modern Language Notes, Victoriographies, and chapters in volumes such as Extraordinary Aesthetes (University of Toronto Press, 2023), Reading Victorian Literature (Edinburgh University Press, 2019), and Wilde’s Other Worlds (Routledge, 2018). Her scholarship received support from a UNLV Research Development Award (2008) and National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar Grant (2009). Becker has earned prestigious teaching honors, including the Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents’ Teaching Award (2013, statewide winner), UNLV Foundation Distinguished Teaching Award (2013), and Rita Deanin Abbey Award for Excellence in Teaching (2010). She edited The Pater Newsletter (2006–2010), served as North American Book Review Editor for Victoriographies (2011–2015), and has been the English Department Liaison and Advisory Board Member to the Black Mountain Institute since 2006. Becker teaches courses including Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism, literary nonfiction, narratology, aesthetics, and Victorian studies.