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 Professor of English
Avalon Foundation Chair of the Humanities
Director, Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program
Visiting Professor, Free University
Berlin, Germany
Fall term 2007
Ph.D., University of Chicago
14 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.
Courses
American Drama (English 47), American Fiction to 1900
(English 42), Moby Dick and the Invisible Man, advanced seminar
Selected Publications
"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.
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