Kevin McLaughlin
Dean of the Faculty; Nicholas Brown Professor of Oratory and Belles Lettres and Professor of English and Comparative Literature:
English, Comparative Literature,German Studies
Phone: +1 401 863 9525
Phone 2: +1 401 863 2393
Kevin_McLaughlin@Brown.EDU
Kevin McLaughlin's research focuses on European and American literature during the 19th century with special emphasis on the interconnections between 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 was named Dean of the Faculty in 2011. He has been the recipient of research grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Program and the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst.
Interests
Currently, McLaughlin is working on two book projects:
1. Poetic Force: Poetry after Kant. This project focuses on the productive power of philosophy and the reflective capacity of lyric poetry in the context of the philosophical and critical writings of Immanuel Kant and Walter Benjamin and in the poetry of Friedrich Hölderlin, Charles Baudelaire, and Matthew Arnold.
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 Passages. 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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