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Dan Latimer
Dan Latimer, Professor, received his PhD in comparative literature from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has been co-editor of Southern Humanities Review since 1984 and specializes in European Romanticism, the History of Literary Criticism, the Symbolist Novel, and Children’s Literature. He is the author of Contemporary Critical Theory (1989) and has published articles in Modern Language Notes, Essays in Literature, New Left Review, and the New Orleans Review.
He received the Humanities Fund Award for Instructional Innovation in 1982 and in 1996 the Auburn University Faculty Achievement Award in the Humanities. He is a long-standing member of the Southern Humanities Council dedicated to the promotion of the liberal arts in regional communities.
Representative Publications
- “Adrift in the ‘Life Sargassic’: The Case of Look Homeward, Angel,” The Thomas Wolfe Review 31, Nos. 1 & 2 (2007) 78-94.
- "The 'Golden, Holy Cord of Calculation': Collodi's Second Thoughts on Pinocchio," The Comparatist 28 (June 2004) 113-134.
- “The La Brea Tar Pits, Tongues of Fire: Helena María Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus and its Background,” Soundings 85, no. 3-4 (Fall/Winter 2002) 323-346.
- “What You Get When You Get What You Want: On American Neopragmatism,” Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Vol. 9 (2001).