Lecture
Friday, Jun 27, 2008, 11 AM

Walter Benn Michaels

Professor for American Literature and Literary Theory, University of Illinois, Chicago

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Walter Benn Michaels, geb. 1948. Michaels wurde 1975 an der University of California, Santa Barbara promoviert. Er lehrte an der Johns Hopkins University und der University of California, Berkeley bevor er 2001 Professor für Anglistik an der University of Illinois in Chicago wurde. Ausgewählte Publikationen: The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism: American Literature at the Turn of the Century (1987); Our America: Nativism, Modernism and Pluralism (1995); The Shape of the Signifier: 1967 to the End of History (2004); The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality (2006).

The event will be held in English