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Kevin McLaughlin

Chair of the English Department; Nicholas Brown Professor of Oratory and Belles Lettres; Professor of English and Comparative Literature and German Studies

Office: 70 Brown St., Rm. 211
Phone: (401) 863-3705

Courses '09-'10
  Sem I:
  •   ENGL 1511G - S01: Dickens and Others -- CRN 14974
  Sem II:
  •  COLT 2820S - S01: Poetry After Kant (ENGL 2900J) -- CRN 24939

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Degrees
Ph.D. New York University 1989
M.A. New York University 1985
B.A. McDaniel College 1981

Research Interests
Nineteenth-century European and American Literature; Literature and Philosophy; Media Theory

Professional Accomplishments
McLaughlin has been the recipient of research grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Program and the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst.   He is the author of Writing in Parts:   Imitation and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Literature   and Paperwork:   Fiction and Mass Mediacy in the Paper Age and co-translator of Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project. McLaughlin is currently at work on a study of of poetry and politics in the 19th century tentatively entitled "Poetic Force."