Michael North is an American literary critic and a professor in the department of English at the
University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California S ...
.
Background
North received a B.A. from
Stanford University in 1973 and Ph.D. from the
University of Connecticut
The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land-grant research university in Storrs, Connecticut, a village in the town of Mansfield. The primary 4,400-acre (17.8 km2) campus is in Storrs, approximately a half hour's drive from H ...
in 1980. North taught at the
College of William and Mary
The College of William & Mary (officially The College of William and Mary in Virginia, abbreviated as William & Mary, W&M) is a public research university in Williamsburg, Virginia. Founded in 1693 by letters patent issued by King William III ...
before joining the
University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California S ...
in 1991.
He became a member of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (abbreviation: AAA&S) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, a ...
in 2012.
Publications
* ''Novelty: A History of the New'', Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, , 2013
* ''Machine-Age Comedy'', 2009
* ''
Camera Works: Photography and the Twentieth-Century Word'', 2005
* ''Reading 1922: A Return to the Scene of the Modern'', 2002
* ''
The Waste Land
''The Waste Land'' is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the Octob ...
: A Norton Critical Edition'', 2000 (editor)
* ''The Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language, and Twentieth-Century Literature'', 1994
* ''The Political Aesthetic of Yeats, Eliot, and Pound'', 1992
* ''Henry Green and the Writing of His Generation'',1984
See also
*
Modernist literature
Literary modernism, or modernist literature, originated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and is characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional ways of writing, in both poetry and prose fiction writing. Modernism experimented ...
*
Modernist poetry
Modernist poetry refers to poetry written between 1890 and 1950 in the tradition of modernist literature, but the dates of the term depend upon a number of factors, including the nation of origin, the particular school in question, and the biases ...
External links
Official website
Modernism
American literary critics
University of Connecticut alumni
Stanford University alumni
University of California, Los Angeles faculty
College of William & Mary faculty
Living people
American academics of English literature
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Year of birth missing (living people)
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