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Walter Benn Michaels
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601 South Morgan Street (MC 162) |
Professor |
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American literature, literary theory
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Walter Benn Michaels is just completing a project, The Shape of the Signifier, on literary and theoretical writing since 1967. His new project - its working title is "The Beauty of a Social Problem" - will be about art and inequality between WWI and WWII, and his teaching over the next few years will probably focus on this period while continuing to engage the issues raised by some more recent texts.
PUBLICATIONS
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The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality |
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The Shape of the Signifier: 1967 to the End of History |
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Our America: Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism (Post-Contemporary Interventions) |