David Mikics

David Mikics is the Moores Distinguished Professor in the Department of English and the Honors College, University of Houston.^[1]

His book on Stanley Kubrick in the Yale Jewish Lives series was published in 2020. His book about Saul Bellow entitled Bellow’s People: How Saul Bellow Made Life Into Art (W.W. Norton) was published in 2016.^[2] Mikics, a Guggenheim Fellow for 2017, is a regular columnist for Tablet magazine. He lives with his wife and son in Brooklyn and Houston.

Bibliography

• Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker, Yale University Press, 2020
• The American Canon by Harold Bloom (Editor), Library of America, 2020
• Bellow's People: How Saul Bellow Made Life Into Art,W.W. Norton and Co., 2016
• Slow Reading in a Hurried Age, Harvard/Belknap, 2013
• The Annotated Emerson(Editor), Harvard/Belknap, 2012
• The Art of the Sonnet, (with Stephanie Burt) Harvard/Belknap, 2011
• Who Was Jacques Derrida? Yale University Press, 2009
• A New Handbook of Literary Terms, Yale University Press, 2007
• The Romance of Individualism in Emerson and Nietzsche, Ohio University Press, 2003