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Kevin McLaughlin

Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Chair of the English Department

Office: 70 Brown St., Rm. 211
Phone: (401) 863-3728

Courses '07-'08
  Sem I:
 ENGL 1560Q - S01: The Poetry of Politics: Baudelaire, Arnold, Whitman
  Sem II:
 ENGL 0410I - S01: The Literature and Politics of Friendship

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Degrees
Ph.D. New York University 1989
M.A. New York University 1985
B.A. Western Maryland College 1981

Research Interests
Nineteenth-century European and American Literature; Literature and Philosophy; Media Theory

Professional Accomplishments
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   and Paperwork:   Fiction and Mass Mediacy in the Paper Age and co-translator of Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project. McLaughlin is currently at work on a study of of poetry and politics in the 19th century tentatively entitled "Lyric in the State of Exception."