Daniel H. Borus
Associate Professor
452 Rush Rhees Library
Rochester, New York 14627-0070
dbrv@mail.rochester.edu
phone: 585.275.9356
fax: 585.756.4425
Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1985
Courses Offered
(subject to change)
Spring 2009
HIS 148 Recent America, 1929-1989
HIS 168: The Wars of Vietnam, 1917-1980
Fall 2009
HIS 147: Industrial America, 1865-1929
HI 382W/482: Topics in 20th Century American Cultural History - 20th Century Multiplicity
Spring 2010
HIS 260: Progressive America
HIS 265W: Baseball in American Life
Fields of Interest
U.S. cultural and intellectual history.
My principal area of interest is the history of cultural life in the United States from the Civil War to the Great Depression. I have recently completed a volume in the Rowman & Littlefield Thought and culture series. Entitled Twentieth-Century Multiplicity, the book explores the ways in which Americans in the first twenty years of the twentieth century accommodated themselves to the unraveling of unifying syntheses. My next work, tentatively entitled American Beauty, will investigate the role of aesthetic thought in American life.
Representative Publications:
- Twentieth-Century Multiplicity: American Thought and Culture, 1900-1920 (2008).
- "The Strange Career of American Bohemianism" American Literary History (Summer 2002).
- "Aesthetics, Cultural Hierarchy, and Democracy," Intellectual History Newsletter (2002).
- "Success and the Single Man," Reviews in American History, (September, 1998).
- "Sui Generis Veblen," International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society (1998).
- "The Strange Case of Theodore Dreiser and the Genteel Tradition," in The Pennsylvania Companion to Jennie Gerhardt (1995).
- "Edward Bellamy's Dream in His Times and Ours," Introduction to Looking Backward (1994).
- "Genteel Progressivism", Review (1992).
- "These United States": Portraits of America in the 1920s (1992).
- Writing Realism: Howells, James, and Norris in the Mass Market (1989).
