Professor of English
The Ted and Helen Geisel Third Century Professor in 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, professor of English, The Ted and Helen Geisel Third Century Professor in 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), The New American Exceptionalism (2009), and Theodor Seuss Geisel (2010). The author of over one hundred articles on figures in American and British literature, Pease is the co-editor of American Renaissance Rediscovered and the editor of seven other volumes including The Cultures of United States Imperialism (1992), The Futures of American Studies (2002) and Re-Framing the Transnational Turn which will be published next year by Dartmouth Press. Professor Pease is general editor of a series of ninety-eight volumes by Duke University Press called "The New Americanists” that have transformed the field of American Studies. In 2010 he inaugurated Re-Mapping the Transnational Turn: A Dartmouth Series in American Studies. He has been awarded Guggenheim, Mellon, Ford, and Hewlett fellowships and has twice received an NEH Directorship to teach college teachers about nineteenth-century American Literature. Professor Pease serves on the Board of Governors of the Clinton Institute in American Studies, and he 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. Over the last five years, Pease has been Distinguished Visiting Professor at the JFK Institute in American Studies at the Freie Universitaett, Berlin; the State University of New York at Buffalo, and the University of Rome at Tor Vegata. In January of 2011, Pease was awarded a doctorate honoris causa by the Faculty of Languages at Sweden’s Uppsala University
American Drama (English 47), American Fiction to 1900 (English 42), Moby Dick and the Invisible Man, advanced seminar
Theodor Seuss Geisel, (Oxford University Press 2010)
The New American Exceptionalism, (University of Minnesota Press 2009)
Luis Gispert: Loud Image, Hood Museum of Art (University Press of New England, 2004)
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.
