Professor of English
Avalon Foundation Chair of the Humanities
Director, Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program
Ph.D., University of Chicago
219 Sanborn House
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755
donald.pease@dartmouth.edu
Professor Pease is the Director of The Futures of American Studies Institute. The summer 2005 session will meet at Dartmouth College June 20 - 26, 2005. More information.
Donald Pease, professor of English, Avalon Foundation Chair of the Humanities, Chair of the Dartmouth Liberal Studies Program and winner of the 1981 Distinguished Teaching Award at Dartmouth, is an authority on nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature and literary theory. In the summer of 1986 he brought the School of Criticism and Theory to Dartmouth. In 1996 he founded the Dartmouth Institute in American Studies and in 1997 he has also served as Academic Director of the Alumni College program. A recipient of a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, he is the author of Visionary Compacts: American Renaissance Writings in Cultural Context (which won the Mark Ingraham Prize for the best new book in the Humanities in 1987) and of over seventy articles on figures in American and British literature and The Culture of United States Imperialism. He is the co-editor of American Renaissance Rediscovered and the editor of seven other volumes including The Futures of American Studies, which will be published next year by Duke University Press. Professor Pease is general editor of a series of books by Duke University Press called "The New Americanists." He has been awarded Guggenheim, Mellon and Hewlett fellowships and has twice received an NEH Directorship to teach college teachers about nineteenth-century American Literature. Professor Pease received the Faculty Award for Service to Alumni Continuing Education in 1999, awarded by Dartmouth's Alumni Council. In 2000 he was the Drue Heinz Visiting Professor at Oxford University.
American Drama (English 47), American Fiction to 1900 (English 42), Moby Dick and the Invisible Man, advanced seminar
"Rethinking the American Renaissance," Aglistika (Spring 2003)
"Gene Wise and the Place of Theory in American Studies," (REAL Fall 2003)
Futures of American Studies, (Duke University Press, 2002)
National Identities and Postnational Narratives, (Duke University Press, 1994)
New Americanists: Revisionist Interventions into the Canon, (Duke University Press, 1994)
Cultures of U.S. Imperialism, (Duke University Press, 1992) with Amy Kaplan
Editor and introduction: New Essays on the Rise of Silas Lapham, (Cambridge, 1991)
Visionary Compacts: American Renaissance Writings in Cultural Context, (University of Wisconsin, 1987)
The American Renaissance Reconsidered: Selected Papers of the English Institute, 1982-1983, (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985) with Walter Benn Michaels.
