William Krier
Professor Emeritus, English
- Office
- 233 Decio Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556 - wkrier@nd.edu
Education
B.A., University of Notre Dame
M.A. University of Michigan
Ph.D., Indiana University
Research interests
Film, Twentieth-century American Fiction
Biography
William Krier is interested in twentieth-century American narrative, particularly Hollywood film. Having published articles on the fiction of writers from Henry James to John Barth, he has centered his attention on film genres. He is currently working on a book-length study of the version of marital love presented by romance comedies from It Happened One Night to the present. He has received the Sheedy Award and the Kaneb Award for excellence in teaching, and now serves as the Director of the English Department Honors Concentration.