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Bill Brown Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor, Department of English Language & Literature, Department of Visual Arts, Committee on the History of Culture, and the College; Fellow, Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory; Coeditor, Critical Inquiry Areas of Expertise:
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Background:
Bill Brown's research focuses on popular literary genres such as science fiction and the Western; on recreational forms such as baseball and kung fu; and on the ways that mass-cultural phenomena from roller coasters to Kodak cameras impress themselves on the literary imagination. He is currently working on the intersection of literary, visual and material cultures, an inquiry that asks how inanimate objects enable human subjects (individually and collectively) to form and transform themselves. Brown teaches on Walt Whitman, "Urban Fiction and American Space, 1880-1910" and on "Modernity and the Sense of Things."
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News clippings:
Biodegradable Home Product Lines, Ready to Rot NEW YORK TIMES May 8, 2008 Collectors are hot on the trail of items from the wacky to the weird and wonderful |
Press releases:
University Celebrates 30th Anniversary of Humanities Day: Annual festival inspired the Chicago Humanities Festival Chicago establishes Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture |
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Chronicle articles:
Humanities Day provides new opportunities for discovery October 9, 2008 Chicago in the News Berlin gift supports scholar studying the novel Scherer gift will help create center to study American culture Modern Language Assn. honors three on faculty |
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