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Walter Benn Michaels

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#700

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#1674

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#349

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Walter Benn Michaels's Degrees

PhD English University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors English University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Walter Benn Michaels is an American literary theorist and author whose areas of research include American literature , Critical Theory, identity politics, and visual arts. Known for challenging the "prevailing trends of postmodernist theory," Michaels has produced works connecting postmodernism, neoliberal capitalism, and socioeconomic inequality. Two of his best-known books are Our America: Nativism, Modernism and Pluralism and The Shape of the Signifier: 1967 to the End of History —the latter being adopted from his 2001 essay of the same name.

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Walter Benn Michaels's Published Works

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Our America: Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism. (1995) (330)
The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality (2006) (277)
Race into Culture: A Critical Genealogy of Cultural Identity (1992) (148)
Against Theory (1982) (135)
5. THE GOLD STANDARD AND THE LOGIC OF NATURALISM (1987) (113)
The Shape of the Signifier: 1967 to the End of History (2013) (82)
The American Renaissance reconsidered (1989) (77)
Against Theory 2: Hermeneutics and Deconstruction (1987) (65)
The Shape of the Signifier (2001) (52)
Plots Against America: Neoliberalism and Antiracism (2006) (48)
An American Tragedy, or the Promise of American Life (1989) (34)
The No-Drop Rule (1994) (31)
The Beauty of a Social Problem: Photography, Autonomy, Economy (2015) (27)
Political Science Fictions (2000) (25)
The Vanishing American (1990) (24)
Nation or Empire (2012) (22)
The New Cosmopolitanism@@@Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism.@@@Our America: Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism.@@@The All-American Skin Game, or, The Decoy of Race: The Long and the Short of It, 1990-1994.@@@The Blue Devils of Nada: A Contemporary American Approach to Aesthetic Statement. (1996) (21)
The American Renaissance Reconsidered: Selected Papers from the English Institute, 1982-83. (1985) (19)
A Reply to Our Critics (1983) (17)
Model minorities and the minority model – the neoliberal novel (2011) (16)
The Contracted Heart (1990) (15)
Jim Crow Henry James? (1995) (13)
"Sister Carrie'"s Popular Economy (1980) (13)
AGAINST FORMALISM: THE AUTONOMOUS TEXT IN LEGAL AND LITERARY INTERPRETATION (1979) (13)
Empires of the Senseless: (The Response to) Terror and (the end of) History (2003) (12)
Not a Matter of Interpretation (2005) (11)
The impossibility of intentionless meaning (1992) (9)
Autobiography of an Ex-White Man (1997) (8)
The Beauty of a Social Problem (e.g. unemployment) (2011) (8)
The Trouble with Diversifying the Faculty (2012) (7)
Reply to John Searle (1994) (6)
Is There a Politics of Interpretation? (1982) (6)
Dude, Where's My Job? (2012) (6)
American Modernism and the Poetics of Identity (1994) (6)
Identity Politics: A Zero-Sum Game (2010) (6)
Forgetting Auschwitz: Jonathan Littell and the Death of a Beautiful Woman (2013) (5)
Writers Reading: James and Eliot (1976) (5)
Saving the Text: Reference and Belief (1978) (4)
Naturalism with a Difference@@@The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism: American Literature at the Turn of the Century@@@Form and History in American Literary Naturalism@@@The Labor of Words: Literary Professionalism in the Progressive Era (1988) (4)
Against Theory 2: Sentence Meaning, Hermeneutics : Protocol of the Fifty-Second Colloquy, 8 December 1985 (1986) (4)
A Reply to Richard Rorty: What Is Pragmatism? (1985) (4)
Critical Response II Affect and Intention : A Reply to (2011) (3)
The Road to Vietnam (1979) (3)
The imperial Shah: An informal biography (1976) (3)
Land of the Kike Home of the Wop (2012) (3)
Why Identity Politics Distracts Us from Economic Inequalities. (2006) (3)
Academic freedom and tenure: The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (2015) (3)
The Politics of a Good Picture: Race, Class, and Form in Jeff Wall's Mimic (2010) (2)
Identity Politics (2010) (2)
Academic freedom and tenure: Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge: A supplementary report on a censured administration (2016) (2)
Academic freedom and tenure: The University of Southern Maine (2015) (2)
The Un-usable Past (2009) (2)
Academic Freedom and Tenure: The College of Saint Rose (New York) (2016) (2)
Local Colors (1998) (2)
Keynote Address: The University Déclassé (2004) (1)
The Victims of New Historicism (1993) (1)
Academic freedom and tenure: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (April 2015) (2015) (1)
Academic freedom and tenure: Felician College (New Jersey) (2015) (1)
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Karen Fields and Barbara Fields (2013) (1)
Reply to George Wilson (1992) (1)
A DEFENSE OF OLD ORIGINALISM (2009) (1)
Picturing the Whole: Form, Reform, Revolution (2017) (1)
The Psychology of Imitation (2012) (1)
Democracy, Being, and the Art of Becoming America (1997) (0)
The Political Archive of Paul de Man: Normativity, Materiality and Inequality: The Politics of the Letter in Paul de Man (2012) (0)
Christopher Nolan's Chinese Room : The Death og a Beautiful Woman and the Idea of Form (2005) (0)
The Rising Tide (2012) (0)
When I Raise My Arm (2018) (0)
The New Modernism@@@Repression and Recovery: Modern American Poetry and the Politics of Cultural Memory, 1910-1945.@@@Gone Primitive: Savage Intellects, Modern Lives. (1992) (0)
Coda. Empires of the Senseless (2013) (0)
The Walled City (2014) (0)
Fictitious Dealing: A Reply to Leo Bersani (1981) (0)
Introduction. The Blank Page (2013) (0)
Normativity, Materiality and Inequality: The Politics of the Letter in Paul de Man (2012) (0)
Our America (2020) (0)
I Was Always Interested in Capitalism. (2018) (0)
My Country, Right or Wrong (2012) (0)
REPRESENTING POVERTY: AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES (2009) (0)
1. Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education by William G. (2007) (0)
Race, Class and Kelley Walker: a Tenth Disaster. (2017) (0)
Cosmopolitanism Goes to Class (2018) (0)
Volume Information (1993) (0)
Volume Information (1983) (0)
A Family Matter (2012) (0)
Chris Killip and LaToya Ruby Frazier (2018) (0)
An Interesting Scholarly Problem (2016) (0)
Difference Not Inferiority (2012) (0)
Autobiographies of the Ex-White Men: Why Race Is Not a Social Construction (2020) (0)
Academic freedom and tenure: University of Missouri (Columbia) (2016) (0)
Historicism’s Forms: The Aesthetics of Critique (2021) (0)
Acknowledgements (2014) (0)
The First American (2012) (0)
Commentary (2022) (0)
Review: The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality by Walter Benn Michaels (2008) (0)

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