Sean McCann
Kenan Professor of the Humanities
116 Mt. Vernon Street, 205860-685-3596
Professor of English
285 Court Street,860-685-3596
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 Quarterly, The Common Review, ELH, 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
Spring 2018:
M,W,F 10:30-noon and by appt
Location: 116 Mt. Vernon, rm 205
Courses
Spring 2021
ENGL 201E - 01
Ways of Reading: Gifts, Debts
ENGL 383 - 01
Fascism and American Lit
Fall 2021
ENGL 351 - 01
Aesthetics and/or Ideology
ENGL 368 - 01
Faulkner