Donald E. Pease is the Ted and Helen Geisel Third Century Professor in the Humanities, chair of the
Master of Arts in Liberal Studies
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Program, professor of English and comparative literature at
Dartmouth College
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. He is an Americanist, literary and cultural critic, and academic. He has been a member of the '' boundary 2'' editorial collective since 1977 or 1978.John Eperjesi, “American Studies: An Interview with Donald Pease”, ''
The Minnesota Review
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'' 65–66 (2006): 121–132. He was the founding editor of the New Americanists series at
Duke University Press
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New Americanist Series at Duke University Press. and editor of the Re-Encountering Colonialism Series and Re-Mapping the Transnational Turn: A Dartmouth Series in American Studies for the
University Press of New England
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(UPNE). Pease directs the annual Futures of American Studies Institute at Dartmouth.Dartmouth faculty website
Education and academic career
Pease earned a B.A. (1968) and M.A. (1969) at the
University of Missouri
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and a Ph.D. in English from the
University of Chicago
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(1973). He has been on the faculty of Dartmouth College since 1973. He has been a visiting professor or scholar at
Indiana University
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Campuses
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Wesleyan University
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University of Pittsburgh
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,
Oxford University
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University at Buffalo
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, and the
University of Rome Tor Vergata
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.
New Americanists
Pease was among the scholars identified by Frederick C. Crews as "The New Americanists" in his 1988 critique of "the now dominant faction" in American Studies published in The New York Review of Books under the title "Whose American Renaissance?"'Whose American Renaissance' /ref> Pease appropriated this name from Crews to push forward new methods of interpretation and critique within American literary studies and within American Studies. The work of the New Americanists, and Pease in particular, challenged existing paradigms of reading, in particular the liberal consensus that depended upon a separation between culture and the public sphere. Pease's response to Crews appeared in an essay published in 1990 in '' boundary 2'' as "New Americanists: Revisionist Interventions into the Canon". In an interview with Racheal Fest appearing in ''boundary 2'', Pease says of the legacy of the New Americanists: "I see the chief legacy of the New Americanists as the ongoing transformation of knowledge production in literature departments across the United States".Racheal Fest, "Legacies of the Future: An Interview with Donald E. Pease", ''boundary 2'' (2018), 45 (2): 221–242. The Duke University Press described Pease's the Americanist Series as dedicated to "the return of socio-political questions, counternational discourses, and minority perspectives to American studies"
“Review of Theodor SEUSS Geisel by Donald E. Pease” /ref> Pease provides what he terms a "psychobiography" of Dr. Seuss by interpreting the transformation of Theodor Geisel from "an artist tycoon of Madison Avenue into a world-renowned author of children’s books".Donald E. Pease, “Dr. Seuss in Ted Geisel’s NeverNever Land” PMLA 126.1 (2011), 197 Jenny Williams, writing for
WIRED
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, calls Pease's book “an academic study of the content, meaning and motivations of Geisel's work".
Ford
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National Endowment for the Humanities
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grants to direct programs for college teachers on the subject of nineteenth-century American Literature. Professor Pease serves on the board of governors of the Clinton Institute in American Studies and received the Dartmouth College Faculty Award for Service to Alumni Continuing Education in 1999, awarded by Dartmouth's Alumni Council. In 2000 he was a guest lecturer for the Drue Heinz Visiting Professor at Oxford University. Pease has been distinguished visiting professor at the JFK Institute in American Studies at the
Freie Universität Berlin
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; the
State University of New York at Buffalo
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, and the
University of Rome Tor Vergata
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. The Faculty of Languages at
Uppsala University
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( Sweden) awarded Pease a doctorate ''honoris causa'' in 2011. In 2012 the American Studies Association (ASA) awarded Pease the Carl Bode-Norman Holmes Pearson Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies. Robyn Wiegman, professor of literature and of women's studies at Duke University, writes of Pease's contribution to the field of American studies: “As one of the most important scholars in American Studies today and a major architect of its extra institutional pedagogies, his contributions to the field are unsurpassed.”.ASA Awards website /ref> Dartmouth Press Release
Bibliography
Teacher
* With his Dartmouth colleague James E. "Jed" Dobson, Pease teaches a
Massive Open Online Course
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(MOOC) via the edX platform on American literature and culture called "The American Renaissance."Re-"Learning How to Teach American Literature through Dartmouth's EdX Program" Dartmouth, June 26, 2015.
Writer
* ''Visionary Compacts: American Renaissance Writings in Cultural Context'' (University of Wisconsin Press, 1987).
* ''The New American Exceptionalism'' (University of Minnesota Press, 2009).
* ''
Walter Benn Michaels.
* ''New Essays on the Rise of Silas Lapham'' (Cambridge University Press, 1991).
* ''Cultures of U.S. Imperialism'' (Duke University Press, 1992) with Amy Kaplan.
* ''National Identities and Postnational Narratives'' (Duke University Press, 1994).
* ''New Americanists: Revisionist Interventions into the Canon'' (Duke University Press, 1994).
* ''Futures of American Studies'' (Duke University Press, 2002).
* ''Re-framing the Transnational Turn in American Studies'' (Dartmouth College Press, 2011).
* ''A William V. Spanos Reader: Humanist Criticism and the Secular Imperative'' (Northwestern, 2015).
Selected chapters/sections of books
* " J. Hillis Miller: The Other Victorian at Yale", in ''The Yale Critics: Deconstruction in America,'' ed. Arac et al. (University of Minnesota Press, 1983).
* "Author", in ''Critical Terms for Literary Study'', 2nd edition, eds. Lentricchia and McLaughlin (University of Chicago Press, 1995).
C. L. R. James
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Moby Dick
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, and the Emergence of Transnational American Studies", ''Arizona Quarterly'' 56.3 (2000).
* "Doing Justice to C. L. R. James's Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways", ''boundary 2'' 27.2 (2000):1–19.
* " Hawthorne in the Custom-House: The Metapolitics, Postpolitics, and Politics of ''
The Scarlet Letter
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