David Mikics is a professor of English at the New College of Florida. He was the Moores Distinguished Professor in the Department of English and the Honors College, University of Houston.
His book on Stanley Kubrick in the Yale University Press 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 & Company) was published in 2016. Mikics was a Guggenheim Fellow for 2017. He is a regular reviewer and columnist for Tablet magazine and the Jewish Review of Books, writing about 20th-century Jewish arts and culture. He lives with his wife and son in Brooklyn.
Bibliography The Limits of Moralizing: Pathos and Subjectivity in Spenser and Milton, Bucknell University Press, 1994 The Romance of Individualism in Emerson and Nietzsche, Ohio University Press, 2003 A New Handbook of Literary Terms, Yale University Press, 2007 Who Was Jacques Derrida?: An Intellectual Biography, Yale University Press, 2009 The Art of the Sonnet (with Stephanie Burt), Belknap Press, 2011 The Annotated Emerson (editor), Belknap Press, 2012 Slow Reading in a Hurried Age, Belknap Press, 2013 Bellow's People: How Saul Bellow Made Life Into Art, W. W. Norton & Company, 2016 The American Canon by Harold Bloom (editor), Library of America, 2020 Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker, Yale University Press, 2020 The MAD Files: Writers and Cartoonists on the Magazine that Warped America’s Brain! (editor), Library of America, 2024
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