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Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature; Distinguished Scholar in Residence
B.A. 1964, Manchester; M.A. 1965, Ph.D. 1968, Illinois
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Research Interests: Classical and Renaissance literature, philosophy, and history; the Renaissance and inter-atlantic cultural exchanges; 18th century literature, history and politics; history and theory of theatre; Caribbean culture and political theory.
Affiliations: Modern Language Association of America; American Comparative Literature Association; Canadian Comparative Literature Association; International Comparative Literature Association; Renaissance Society of America; Sixteenth-Century Studies; Editorial Boards: Symbolon, Siena; Renaissance Drama, Chicago; Discours Social/Social Discourse, Montreal; Annals of Scholarship, New York; Recherches Littéraires, Toronto; Cahiers du xviie Siècle, Athens, GA; Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, Edmonton; Oeuvres et Critiques, Tübingen.
Fellowships/Honors: Forkosch Prize in Intellectual History, 1992; Choice Best Academic book, 1992; Guggenheim Fellow, 1991-1992; American Council of Learned Societies Senior Fellowship, 1986-1987; Fellow, Academy of Literary Studies, 1986; Fellow, Royal Society of Canada, 1983-present; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Senior Fellowship, 1983-1984; Choice Best Academic book, 1982; Canada Council Senior Fellowship, 1977-1978; Morse Fellowship, 1971-1972.
Selected Works:
(co-ed.) Topographies of Race and Gender: Mapping Cultural Representations. 2 vols. Annals of Scholarship, 2007.
(ed.) Music, Writing and Cultural Unity in the Caribbean. Africa World Press, 2005.
Mirages of the Selfe: Patterns of Personhood in Ancient and Early Modern Europe. Stanford University Press, 2003.
Against Autonomy: Global Dialectics of Cultural Exchange. Stanford University Press, 2002.
(ed.) Sisyphus and Eldorado: Magic and Other Realisms in Caribbean Literature. 2nd ed. Africa World Press, 2002.
(ed.) For the Geography of a Soul: Emerging Perspectives on Kamau Brathwaite. Africa World Press, 2001.
Knowledge, Discovery, and Imagination in Early Modern Europe: The Rise of Aesthetic Rationalism. Cambridge University Press. 1997.
The Meaning of Literature. Cornell University Press. 1992.
The Uncertainty of Analysis: Problems in Truth, Meaning, and Culture. Cornell University Press. 1988.
The Discourse of Modernism. Cornell University Press. 1982, 1985.
Tragedy and Truth: Studies in the Development of a Renaissance and Neoclassical Discourse. Yale University Press. 1980.
Toward Dramatic Illusion: Theatrical Technique and Meaning from Hardy to Horace. Yale University Press. 1971.
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