Williams English

John K Limon

Professor of English

E-mail: John.K.Limon@williams.edu
Phone: (413) 597-2567



EDUCATION:
BA: Harvard, 1973; PhD: UCal Berkeley,1981.

COURSES TAUGHT:
Contemporary American Novel, Seminars on Modernism and Faulkner,
American Literature to 1860.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

The Place of Fiction in the Time of Science, Writing After War, Stand-up Comedy in Theory

NEXT LEAVE:
Spring, 2006

PRIMARY FIELDS OF INTEREST:
American Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science and of War, Stand-up Comedy.

OTHER INTERESTS:
Shame Theory; W.G. Sebald, American Popular Culture, Sports Theory, Intelligence Theory, Kafka

 

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