Lee Clark Mitchell
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Lee Clark Mitchell (born 1947) is an American author and professor American studies and literature. He is the Holmes Professor of Belles-Lettres at Princeton University and the former chair of the English Department and director of the program in American studies.[1]
Lee Clark Mitchell | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1947 (age 78–79) |
| Occupations | Author, professor |
| Spouse | Carolyn Abbate (div.) |
| Children | 2 |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Washington (Ph.D.) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Princeton University |
Early life and education
Mitchell was born in 1947.[2] He completed his Ph.D. at University of Washington.[1]
Suspension
In 2004 Princeton University suspended Mitchell from his faculty position for a year after an investigation determined that he had misspent approximately $20,000 in research funds over an 8–9-year period.[3]
Personal life
Mitchell was married to musicologist Carolyn Abbate with whom he has two sons.[4][5] In April 2019, he announced his engagement to Cameron Platt after 7 months of dating. They met in the Fall of 2013 when Mitchell was a professor and later a mentor of Platt. They began a personal relationship in 2018 after Platt completed a master's degree at University of Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship.[6][7]
Selected works
Books
- Mitchell, Lee Clark; Elliot, Emory (1986). New Essays on The Red Badge of Courage. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521315128.
- Mitchell, Lee Clark (1989). Determined Fictions: American Literary Naturalism. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231068987.
- Bush, Alfred L.; Mitchell, Lee Clark (1994). The Photograph and the American Indian. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691034898.
- Mitchell, Lee Clark (1998). Westerns: Making the Man in Fiction and Film. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226532356.
- Mitchell, Lee Clark (2014). Witnesses to a Vanishing America: The Nineteenth-Century Response. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9781400856152.
- Mitchell, Lee Clark (2017). Mere Reading: The Poetics of Wonder in Modern American Novels. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 9781501329678.
- Mitchell, Lee Clark (2018). Late Westerns: The Persistence of a Genre. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 9781496201966.
- Mitchell, Lee Clark (2019). More Time: Contemporary Short Stories and Late Style. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780192575791.
