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
•  Culture and Global Ethics
•  Global Literatures
•  Globalizing American Studies
•  Herman Melville
•  Literature and Modern Terror
•  American Literature and Otherness
•  Early American Writing
•  Democracy and Modern American Literature

BOOKS & RECENT ARTICLES

Global Studies 1 (Kendall-Hunt Publishing Co., 2003)

"Special Issue: Globalizing Literary Studies," PMLA (116/1, January 2001)

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 (with Carl Gutierrez-Jones), America and the Misshaping of a New World Order (University of California Press, 2010)

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 & IN PROGRESS

WORKS IN PRESS

"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

Cosmopolitanism in an Era of Global Absolutisms

Essays on "Global Ethics" and "Global Literature"