Faculty Guide

Title

Paul Prosswimmer Professor of American Literature

English and American Literature

Expertise

Puritanism. Literature of the American Revolution. American Renaissance. Film studies. Theory of Social Policy and Social Change; Social Policy Analysis
Theory of Violence; Humanization of work.

Profile

Professor Gilmore's interests range from American Puritanism to film. His current project focuses on the major prose writers of the antebellum period.

Awards and Honors

American Council of Learned Societies Fellow (1987 - 1988)

Bell Prize for American Literature, Harvard University (1973)

Courses Taught

ENG	6a	American Literature in the Age of Lincoln
ENG	36a	America's First Bestsellers
ENG	136a	Race and Realism
ENG	206a	Language and Power in the American Renaissance
ENG	226a	Race and Reconstruction in American Literature

Scholarship

Gilmore, Michael T. ""'Speak, Man!': Billy Budd in the Crucible of Reconstruction"." ALH 2009. (2009). (forthcoming)

Gilmore, Michael T. ""The War on Words: Slavery, Race, and Free Speech in American Literature"." Proceedings of the English Literary Society of Japan. (2009): Hiroshima Studies in American Ethnic Literature. 5 ed., 2009.

Gilmore, Michael T. ""The War on Words: Slavery, Race, and Free Speech in American Literature"." Proceedings of the English Literary Society of Japan 111. (2008): 206-214.

Gilmore, Michael T. ""Free Speech and the American Renaissance"." Raritan Vol 26. no. 2, Fall 2006 (2007): pp. 90-113.

Gilmore,Michael T. Surface and Depth. Oxford University Press, 2003.

Gilmore,Michael T. Cambridge History of American Literature. Vol. 1, Literature of the Early Republic (paper) N, 1998.

Gilmore,Michael T. Differences in the Dark: American Movies and English Theater. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.

Gilmore,Michael T. Cambridge History of American Literature. Vol. 1 (1590-1820), 1997.

Gilmore,Michael T, co-ed. Wai Chee Dimock. Rethinking Class: Literary Studies and Social Formations. Columbia University Press, 1994.

Gilmore,Michael T. The Letters of the Early Republic, in the Cambridge History of American Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Gilmore,Michael T. American Romanticism and the Marketplace. University of Chicago Press, 1985.

Gilmore,Michael T, ed.. Early American Literature: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1980.

Gilmore,Michael T, ed.. Twentieth-Century Interpretations of Moby Dick. Prentice-Hall, 1977.

Gilmore,Michael T. The Middle Way: Puritanism and Ideology in American Romantic Fiction. Rutgers Univesity Press, 1977.