Michael Trask

I work at the intersection of queer theory and feminism, high and low culture, and social theory and traditional literary criticism. Although I mainly teach and write on 20th-century American Literature, I also teach courses on 19th-century British literature (Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde, the Victorian Triple-Decker). My current book project considers a variety of post-1970 social and intellectual trends and their literary resonances, including the Kantian turn in political theory, animal liberation, deep ecology, and libertarianism. I earned my Ph.D. in English from the Johns Hopkins University in 1998 and my B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1990.