PROFESSOR MORRIS DICKSTEIN

Professor Morris Dickstein is a Distinguished Professor of English at Queens College and at the Graduate Center, where he is also a senior fellow of the Center for the Humanities.  He served as Acting Coordinator of the Film Studies Certificate Program from Fall 2001 through Fall 2002.

His books include Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties (1977, 1997), a nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, Double Agent: The Critic and Society (1992), and Leopards in the Temple: The Transformation of American Fiction, 1945-1970 (2002). He is the editor of The Revival of Pragmatism: New Essays on Social Thought, Law, and Culture (1998) and is currently working on a cultural history of America in the 1930's.

Dickstein is a contributing editor of Partisan Review and has published many essays and reviews in The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, The Nation, the Times Literary Supplement, The American Scholar, and other major periodicals.

He is a member of the National Society of Film Critics and the National Book Critics Circle and a served as Vice-Chair of the New York Council for the Humanities (1997-2001).

Contact:

Telephone: 212/817-7210
E-Mail: mdickstein@gc.cuny.edu