David Mikics
American literary scholar
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David Mikics is a professor of English at the New College of Florida.[1] He was the Moores Distinguished Professor in the Department of English and the Honors College, University of Houston.[2]
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (2017)
DisciplineEnglish literature
Sub-discipline20th-century Jewish arts and culture
InstitutionsNew College of Florida
University of Houston
University of Houston
David Mikics | |
|---|---|
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (2017) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | English literature |
| Sub-discipline | 20th-century Jewish arts and culture |
| Institutions | New College of Florida University of Houston |
| Main interests | Jewish arts and culture, Saul Bellow, Stanley Kubrick |
His book on Stanley Kubrick in the Yale Jewish Lives series was published in 2020. His book about Saul Bellow entitled Bellow’s People: How Saul Bellow Made Life Into Art (W.W. Norton) was published in 2016.[3] Mikics, a Guggenheim Fellow for 2017, is a regular reviewer and columnist for Tablet magazine and The Jewish Review of Books, writing about 20th-century Jewish arts and culture.[4][5] He lives with his wife and son in Brooklyn and Houston.
Bibliography
- Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker, Yale University Press, 2020
- The American Canon by Harold Bloom (Editor), Library of America, 2020
- Bellow's People: How Saul Bellow Made Life Into Art,W.W. Norton and Co., 2016
- Slow Reading in a Hurried Age, Harvard/Belknap, 2013
- The Annotated Emerson(Editor), Harvard/Belknap, 2012
- The Art of the Sonnet, (with Stephanie Burt) Harvard/Belknap, 2011
- Who Was Jacques Derrida? Yale University Press, 2009
- A New Handbook of Literary Terms, Yale University Press, 2007
- The Romance of Individualism in Emerson and Nietzsche, Ohio University Press, 2003