Brian Higgins

	601 South Morgan Street (MC 162) University Hall, Suite 2000 Chicago, IL 60607 Email: bhiggins@uic.edu Curriculum Vitae
Professor Emeritus
Melville, American literature

Brian Higgins' main teaching and research interests are nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century American literature, particularly Melville, James, and Wharton. He is currently finishing a book-length study of Melville's PIERRE (with Hershel Parker).