Ph.D., Columbia University.
Distinguished Professor, Graduate School. English.

Selected Publications:

• The Metaphysical Club (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001)
• The Cambridge History of Literary Crtiticism, Volume Seven: Modernism and the New Criticism, ed. with A. Walton Litz and Lawrence Rainey (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000)
• The Future of Academic Freedom, ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998)
• Pragmatism: A Reader, ed. (New York: Vintage, 1997)
• America in Theory, ed., with Leslie Berlowitz and Denis Donoghue (New York: Oxford University Prees, 1988)
• Discovering Modernism: T. S. Eliot and His Context (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987)