John Michael
Professor
Department of English
E-mail: john.michael@rochester.edu
Office:
585.275.7235
Fax:
585.256.2594
Department Website:
http://www.rochester.edu/college/eng/faculty/michael.html
Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University
John Michael works in nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature, critical theory, and cultural studies. His research interests include problematics of national identities in American literature and culture, contemporary relations between academic intellectuals and democratic politics, and the complex interrelations between the reading of literature, the demands of ethics, and the problems of historical knowledge.
Taught at University of Warsaw (Poland), the Johns Hopkins University, and the State University of New York at Geneseo. Author of Anxious Intellects: Academic Professionals, Public Intellectuals, and Enlightenment Values and Emerson and Skepticism: the Cipher of the World; articles on intellectuals and terrorism, globalization and politics, Emerson, Hawthorne, Poe, neo-pragmatism, the Frankfurt School, Eastern Europe, Stephen Hawking, intellectuals and contemporary cultural politics. Courses in nineteenth-century American literature and culture, race and representation, critical theory, intellectuals and intellectual history
Courses
AAS 264 Representing Race in American Culture: National Negotiations & Global Arena
Frederick Douglass
Institute for African and
African-American Studies
Morey 302
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627
585.275.7235
fdi@mail.rochester.edu