Michael Clune
Michael Clune (PhD. Johns Hopkins University), specializes in American literature. His work investigates two basic questions: What difference does literature make? What methods might best illuminate that difference in the context of the modern research university? His book American Literature and the Free Market (Cambridge, 2010) examines how postwar writing from Frank O’Hara’s poetry to nineties gangster rap takes on social power by offering an escape from society. His current project focuses on literature’s effort to defeat time. Elements of this project have appeared in the journals Representations, Criticism, and Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
