The 20th century contained some of the finest writers who have ever lived. It was a groundbreaking century in so many ways, not least of all in literature. Many subjects that would have been ...

The early years of the twenty-first century saw several losses for the American theatre but also marked ... bringing fresh and diverse perspectives to contemporary American drama. With a focus on ...

The late Tony Tanner was one of the most distinctive and distinguished critical voices on American literature. His work is familiar to generations of students and scholars, and has helped shape our ...

Richard Millington teaches courses in American literature, with a focus on writers of the 19th century and on 20th-century multiethnic literature. He has written on Nathaniel Hawthorne, Willa Cather ...

I am currently working on a book project, provisionally titled “Money Talks: Finance and Form in Nineteenth-Century American Literature.” This project examines a number of nineteenth- and ...

Forging American Communism: The Life of William Z. Foster Edward P. Johanningsmeier A major figure in the history of twentieth-century American radicalism, William Z. Foster (1881-1961) fought his way ...

In the ensuing decades of [the twentieth] century and for several different generations of the American Left, Greenwich Village has had a continuing and storied importance. But for the celebrated ...