Michael R. Steele is Distinguished Professor of English
and English Department Chair
at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon.
PERSONAL:  A few words . . .

The year 2003 was a busy year in books for me.  I completed the manuscript
for my second Holocaust book as well as the updated third edition of
The Notre Dame Fighting Irish Football Encyclopedia.
In addition to completing those works, I have proposed a composition
textbook to publishing company Prentice Hall.

After completing those projects, I am now wrestling with matters related to my second
Holocaust book, Christianity, the Other, and the Holocaust.  Specifically, my current
concerns have to do with pedagogy and the creation of "the defiant conscience."



My current reading matter:  Gettysburg -- A Meditation on War and Values, by Kent Gramm;
Media and Cultural Studies, by Meenakshi Graham; Lying About Hitler, by Richard J. Evans;
and The Dawn of Human Culture, by Richard G. Klein.



Two favorite literary quotations:

"'I rebel, therefore we exist,' said the slave.  Metaphysical rebellion then
added, 'We are alone,' by which we still live today."
                                                                                                    -- Albert Camus, The Rebel

" . . . I have realized that we all have the plague . . . one must do what one can to
cease being plague-stricken . . . .  I resolved to have no truck
with anything . . . which brings death to anyone . . . "
                                                                                -- Tarrou, in The Plague, by Albert Camus







Below are links to my books, old and new.
Books:
Michael R. Steele is Distinguished Professor of English
and English Department Chair
at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon.