David Chinitz
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Title: | Professor |
| E-mail: | dchinit@luc.edu |
Personal Information
Education:
B.A., Amherst College (1984); M.S., Brown U. (1985); Ph.D., Columbia University (1993)
Teaching and Research Interests:
Poetry, Modernism, T. S. Eliot, Harlem Renaissance, Popular Culture
Books:
"Which sin to bear?" Authenticity and Compromise in Langston Hughes. New York: Oxford UP, 2013 (forthcoming).
A Companion to T. S. Eliot.(Ed.) Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
T. S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2003.
Recent Publications:
"'A real, solid, sane, racial something': Langston Hughes's Blues Poetry." Ablaze with Lyric Fire: Black Music, Black Poetry. Ed. Gordon Thompson. Ashgate, 2013 (forthcoming).
"'A Vast Wasteland?' Eliot and Popular Culture." A Companion to T. S. Eliot. Ed. David E Chinitz. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. 66-78.
"The New Harlem Renaissance Studies." Modernism/Modernity 13 (2006): 375-82.
"The Waste Land." A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture. Ed. David Bradshaw and Kevin J. H. Dettmar. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006. 324–32.
"In the Shadows: Popular Song and Eliot's Construction of Emotion." Modernism/Modernity 11.3 (2004): 449-67.
Works-in-Progress:
The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot. Vol. 6: 1940–1946. (Co-ed. with Ronald Schuchard.) Johns Hopkins UP.
A Companion to Modernist Poetry. (Co-ed. with Gail McDonald.) Wiley-Blackwell.
Offices Held:
First VP, Modernist Studies Association; Past President, T. S. Eliot Society
Major Awards:
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship, 2012-2013
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2008