Sean McCann
Kenan Professor of the Humanities
285 Court Street, 209860-685-3596
Professor of English
285 Court Street, 209860-685-3596
BA Georgetown University
PHD CUNY The Graduate Center
Sean McCann
Sean McCann studies late-nineteenth and twentieth century American literature and its relation to contemporaneous political development. He is the author of A Pinnacle of Feeling: American Literature and Presidential Government (Princeton University Press, 2008) and Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism (Duke University Press, 2000), which received honorable mention for the America Studies Association's John Hope Franklin Prize for the best book in American Studies. His essays have appeared in American Literary History, American Quarterly, The Common Review, ELH, Post-45, Radical History Review, Twentieth-Century Literature, Studies in American Fiction, the Yale Journal of Criticism, and several edited volumes.
Sean McCann received his B.A. from Georgetown University and his Ph.D. in English from the City University of New York Graduate School and University Center.
Academic Affiliations
Office Hours
SP 2023:
MW 11:00-noon
TH 4:00 - 5:00 pm
and by appt
285 Court St., rm 209 or by Zoom
Courses
Fall 2023
ENGL 178F - 01
Literature of Business
ENGL 318O - 01
The Gothic and the Sentimental
ENGL 381 - 01
The Gothic and the Sentimental
Spring 2024
ENGL 204A - 01
American Literature, 1865-1945
ENGL 294 - 01
Wharton and the Art/Science of