Michael North (professor)

Michael North is an American literary critic and a professor in the department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Background

North received a B.A. from Stanford University in 1973 and Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut in 1980. North taught at the College of William and Mary before joining the University of California, Los Angeles in 1991.
He became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012.

Publications

Novelty: A History of the New, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press,, 2013Machine-Age Comedy, 2009Camera Works: Photography and the Twentieth-Century Word, 2005Reading 1922: A Return to the Scene of the Modern, 2002The Waste Land , 2001 The Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language, and Twentieth-Century Literature, 1994The Political Aesthetic of Yeats, Eliot, and Pound, 1992Henry Green and the Writing of His Generation,1984