• Anxious Intellects: Academic Professionals, Public Intellectuals, and Enlightenment Values, Duke 2000
• Emerson and Skepticism: The Cipher of the World, Johns Hopkins 1988
• Review: George Snedeker, The Politics of Critical Theory: Language/Discourse/Society, in Socialism and Democracy 19.1 (2005)
  
• “Beyond Us and Them: Identity and Terror from an Arab-American’s Perspective,” in Palestine America, spec. issue of South Atlantic Quarterly 102.4 (2003), 701-728

• The Failure of America and the Claims of Identity from Thomas Jefferson to the War on Terror, University of Minnesota
• “Liberal Justice and Particular Identity: Cavell, Emerson, Rawls,” in Arizona Quarterly
  
• “Identity, Masochism, and the Democratic Intellectual in the War on Terror,” in The Hedgehog Review
  

• “Death, Love, and Emerson’s Poetry,” submitted
  
• Modern Poetry in Nineteenth-Century America: Poe, Whitman, Dickinson, and Death

Teaching

John Michael's teaching interests span the corpus of American literature, the questions of aesthetics, and the demands of worldly criticism and critical theory in a situation that has been global for a very long time.

Recent undergraduate courses

• Studies in Translation (fall 2007)
• American Realists (spring 2007)
• Black Intellectuals (spring 2007)
• Poe, Dickinson, and Whitman (fall 2006)
• American Romantics (spring 2006)
• Representing Race: American Culture, Global Perspectives (fall 2005)
  

Recent graduate courses

• American Renaissance (fall 2007)
• Aesthetics and Ethics (fall 2006)
• Henry James and American Cosmopolitanism (spring 2006)
• Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Theory of American Literature
  

• Presidential Fellow, Salzburg Seminars, Salzburg, Austria, 1993
  
• Fulbright Lecturing Award, Instytut Anglistyki, Uniwersytet warszawski, Poland, 1990-91
  
• CIES Fellowship, Summer Polish Institute, University of Pittsburgh, 1990
  
• Junior Faculty Research Fellowship, University of Rochester, 1989
  
• William B. Kenan Teaching Fellowship for Excellence and Innovation in Undergraduate Teaching, The Johns Hopkins University, 1981-82 and 1982-83
  
• Humanities Center Fellowship for Study in Paris, The Johns Hopkins University, 1980-81
  
• Human Biology Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins University, 1979-80
  
• Graduate Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins University, 1977-79
• Advisory Board, Journal of Narrative Theory, 2000-present
• Editorial Board, Telos, 1990-98
• Steering Committee, Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference, Rochester, 1994
• Tenure and Promotion Referee for (most recently) Princeton University, University of Michigan, Georgia Technological Institute, New York University
• Outside Reader, Westview Press, University of Minnesota Press, Harper Collins, University of Chicago Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, University of Oklahoma Press, PMLA
  

John Michael's CV