Lee Clark Mitchell


Lee Clark Mitchell is an American author and professor American studies and literature. He is the Holmes Professor of Belles-Lettres at Princeton University and the former chair of the English Department and director of the program in American studies.

Early life and education

Mitchell was born in 1947. He completed his Ph.D. at University of Washington.

Suspension

In 2004 Princeton University suspended Mitchell from his faculty position for a year after an investigation determined that he had misspent approximately $20,000 in research funds over an 8–9-year period.

Personal life

Mitchell was married to musicologist Carolyn Abbate with whom he has two sons. In April 2019, he announced his engagement to Cameron Platt after 7 months of dating. They met in the Fall of 2013 when Mitchell was a professor and later a mentor of Platt. They began a personal relationship in 2018 after Platt completed a master's degree at University of Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship.

Selected works

Books

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