Brian G. McHale is a US academic and literary theorist who writes on a range of fiction and poetics, mainly relating to postmodernism and narrative theory.
He is currently Distinguished Humanities Professor of English at Ohio State University.
McHale was an honorary professor, from 2009 to 2011, at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.
He is co-founder, with James Phelan and David Herman, of Project Narrative[permanent dead link], an initiative based at Ohio State University.
He has also written about the cultural resonance of Alice in Wonderland, which he regards as a symbol of postmodernism.