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Associate Professor
Michael D. Snediker teaches courses in early American Literature, Transcendentalism, Henry James, Modernism, Poetics, Queer Theory, Disability Theory, and Aesthetics. He is the author of
Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood and other Felicitous Persuasions (U.Minnesota Press, 2009), which was nominated for the MLA First Book Prize, the Alan Bray Prize, and Phi Beta Kappa's Christian Gauss Prize. His second critical book, a reading of disability theory and aesthetics across the very long American 19th century, is titled
Contingent Figure: Aesthetic Duress from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (under contract, U.Minnesota Press). His articles have appeared in venues including
ELH,
J19,
Modernism/Modernity, and
Postmodern Culture. He's also a published poet who has been a resident at both the James Merrill House (Stonington, CT) and Yaddo (Saratoga Springs, NY). His most recent book of poems, the
Apartment of Tragic Appliances, was published in 2013 by Punctum Books. His poems have appeared in venues including
The Black Warrior Review,
Court Green,
The Cream City Review,
Jubilat,
Maggie,
The Paris Review, and
Pleiades. He's currently writing about Emerson and clouds. His next book of poetry,
The New York Editions, is a translation of Henry James's novels into lyric poems.
Education
- PhD (American Literature), Johns Hopkins University, 2005
- MA (American Literature), Johns Hopkins University, 2003
- MPhil (American Literature), Cambridge University, 2000
- BA (summa cum laude with highest honors), Williams College, 1998
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