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Areas of Academic Interest:
• American Literary, Cultural,
Intellectual, and Religious Studies
• Theories of the Global
• Global Ethics
• The Globalization of
Literature
Recent Course Offerings:
Democracy and Modern American Literature
Global History, Cultures, and Ideologies
Global Literatures
Globalizing American Studies
Herman Melville
Literature and Modern Terror
American Literature and Otherness
Early American Writing
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, William James
Pragmatism and Other Writings (Penguin,2000)
Editor (with Stephen Greenblatt) of Redrawing the Boundaries: The Transformation of English and American Literary Studies (Modern Language Association, 1992)
Editor, Early American Writing (Penguin, 1994)
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)
Numerous essays on American and modern literature, critical theory, and
intellectual and cultural history.
Works in Press:
The Oxford Historical
Guide to Herman Melville (New York: Oxford University Press,
2005).
"War Narratives and American Exceptionalism"
Works in Progress:
"America's Gods" (AMERICAN
LITERARY HISTORY)
"War Narratives and American Culture," co-edited with Carl Gutierrez-Jones
America and the Reshaping " co-edited with Carl Gutierrez-Jones
Defending the Human
in an Age of Terror