Kevin McLaughlin
Nicholas Brown Professor of Oratory and Belles Lettres and Professor of English and Comparative Literature:
English and Comparative Literature
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Kevin McLaughlin's research focuses on European and American literature during the 19th century. McLaughlin has special interests in literature and philosophy. He is the author of two books: Writing in Parts: Imitation and Exchange in 19th-Century Literature (Stanford University Press, 1995) and Paperwork: Fiction and Mass Mediacy in the Paper Age (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005). He is also co-translator of Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project (Harvard University Press, 1999).
Biography
McLaughlin has been the recipient of research grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Program and the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. He is the author of Writing in Parts: Imitation and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Literature (Stanford UP) and Paperwork: Fiction and Mass Mediacy in the Paper Age (U of Pennsylvania P) and co-translator of Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project (Harvard UP).
Interests
Currently, McLaughlin is working on two book projects:
1. Poetic Force. A comparative study of the links between poetry and politics in the work of Charles Baudelaire and Matthew Arnold by way of Walter Benjamin's critical and theoretical writings on lyric poetry.
Here are links to two recent articles taken from this project:
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/partial_answers/v005/5.2mclaughlin.html
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/victorian_studies/v050/50.4.mclaughlin.pdf
2. Virtual Paris: Toward Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project. A collection of essays approaching leading topics in Walter Benjamin's late study of nineteenth-century Paris as manifestations of a theory about the virtual quality of experience.
http://heldref-publications.metapress.com/media/2g5kykyhqm7p69xrkc3u/ contributions/f/2/0/p/f20p2h8808lqx553.pdf
Degrees
Comparative Literature, New York University, 1989
Awards
National Endowment for the Humanities research grant for book-in-progress, Paperwork: Fiction and Mass Mediacy in the Paper Age, 2002-03
Bronson Research Fellowship, Brown University, Department of English, 1999-2000
National Endowment for the Humanities research grant for English translation of Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project (co-translator with Howard Eiland), 1994-96
St. John's University Faculty Summer Research Grant, 1995
Dean's Dissertation Fellowship, New York University, 1987-88
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Graduate Fellowship (Frankfurt) 1986-87
Fulbright Quadrille Ball Fellowship (Frankfurt), declined, 1986-87
Sidney and Celia Siegel Fellowship in the Humanities, 1984-85
University Developmental Fellowship, New York University, 1982-84
Phi Beta Kappa
Affiliations
Modern Language Association
American Comparative Literature Association
Teaching
Professor McLaughlin teaches courses on nineteenth-century Anglo-American and European literature: The Novel from Goethe to Proust: The Victorian Novel; Fiction from Dickens to James; Literature and Money in the Age of Paper. He also teaches a course on the philosophical and critical writings of Walter Benjamin.
Funded Research
National Endowment for the Humanities research grant for book-in-progress, Paperwork: Fiction and Mass Mediacy in the Paper Age, 2002-03
Bronson Research Fellowship, Brown University, Department of English, 1999-2000
National Endowment for the Humanities research grant for English translation of Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project (co-translator with Howard Eiland), 1994-96
St. John's University Faculty Summer Research Grant, 1995
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