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Areas of Academic Interest:
• American Literary, Cultural,
Intellectual, and Religious Studies
• Global Theory and Culture
• Global Ethics
• The Globalization of
Literature
Recent Course Offerings:
Theories of Inter- and Cross-Cultural Understanding
Global History, Cultures,
and Ideologies
Global Literatures
Globalizing American Studies
Herman Melville
Literature and Modern Terror
American Literature and Otherness
Early American Writing
Democracy and Modern American Literature
Books
and Recent Articles:
Beyond Solidarity: Pragmatism and Difference in a Globalized World, forthcoming (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Spring 2001).
Thinking Across the American Grain: Ideology, Intellect, and the New Pragmatism(University of Chicago Press, 1992)
The Culture of Criticism
and the Criticism of Culture (Oxford University Press,1987).
The Interpretation of Otherness: Literature, Religion, and the American Imagination (Oxford University Press, 1979).
F.O. Matthiessen:
The Critical Achievement (The University of Washington Press,1975).
Editor, A Historical Guide to Herman Melville (Oxford University
Press, 2005)
Editor (with Carl Gutierrez-Jones), War Narratives
and American Culture (American Cultures and Global Contexts Center, 2005)
Editor, William James Pragmatism and Other Writings (Penguin,2000)
Editor, Early American Writing (Penguin, 1994)
Editor (with Stephen Greenblatt) of Redrawing the Boundaries: The Transformation of English and American Literary Studies (Modern Language Association, 1992)
Editor, Church, State, and American Culture (University of North Carolina Press,1984)
Editor, The Bible and American Arts and Letters (Fortress, 1983)
Editor, New World Metaphysics: Reading on the Religious Meaning of the American Experience (Oxford University Press, 1981)
Editor, Henry James, Senior: A Selection of His Writing (American Library Association, 1974)
Editor, Literature and Religion (Harper and Row, 1971)
"America's Gods," AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY, 19/1 (Spring 2007)
Numerous essays on American and modern literature, critical theory, and
intellectual and cultural history.
Works in Press:
Editor (with Carl Gutierrez-Jones), AMERICA AND THE
MISSHAPING OF A NEW WORLD ORDER (University of California Press, 2009)
"The Place of Culture in the Play of International
Politics," in
AMERICA AND THE MISSHAPING OF A NEW WORLD ORDER
"Ideas to Die For: Pragmatism in a World of
Terror" in PRAGMATISM
AND GLOBALISM, ed. Thomas C. Hilde
"The Transcivilizational, the Intercivilizational, and the Human,” “The
Transcivilizational, the Intercivilizational, and the Human: The Quest
for the Normative in the Legitimacy Debate,” LEGITIMACY
AND LEGALITY IN THE INTERNATIONAL ORDER, ed. by Richard Falk
Works in Progress:
Defending the Human
in an Age of Terror
Essays on "Global Ethics" and "Global Literature"