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John Michael
Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University
Professor, English and Visual and Cultural Studies
Co-Chair, The Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies, 2003-2004
jnml@troi.cc.rochester.edu
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- Interests:
- 19th- and 20th-century American literature, critical theory, and cultural studies
- Problematics of national identities in American literature and culture
- Contemporary relations between academic intellectuals and democratic politics
- The complex interrelations between the reading of literature, the demands of ethics, and the problems of historical knowledge
- Publications:
- Anxious Intellects: Academic Professionals, Public Intellectual
- 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
- Current book project is "Ahab's Crew: Obsession, Democracy, the American Subject from Jefferson to the War on Terror"
- Graduate Courses:
- ENG 540 Nineteenth-Century American Literature
- ENG 552 Aesthetics, Identification and Power
- ENG 543 American Cosmopolitanism