Michael north biography

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Education

B.A. 1973 Stanford University; M.A. 1976 University of Connecticut; Ph.D. 1980 University of Connecticut.

Interests

20th-Century British and American Literature; Post-Colonial Literature; Inter-relationships between Art and Literature; Politics and Literature; Race, Ethnicity, and Language.

Selected Works

“The Afterlife of Modernism.” New Literary History, 50 (Winter 2019): 91-112; What Is the Present?

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018; Novelty: A History of theNew (2013);Machine-Age Comedy (2009); Camera Works: Photography and the Twentieth-Century Word (2005); The Waste Land: A Norton Critical Edition (2001); Reading 1922: A Return to the Scene of the Modern (1999); The Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language, and Twentieth-Century Literature (1994); The Political Aesthetic of Yeats, Eliot, and Pound (1991); The Final Sculpture: Public Monuments and Modern Poets (1985);