Kevin McLaughlin (born 1959) is an American scholar of comparative literature. Currently he is at the George Hazard Crooker Distinguished University Professor of English, Professor of comparative literature and German studies, Director of the John Nicholas Brown Center for Advanced Study, and Dean Emeritus of the Faculty at Brown University. He is also a published author.
McLaughlin has also held two other named chair professorships, the Nicholas Brown Professor of Oratory and Belles Lettres from 2005 to 2011, and the Manning Endowed Professor of English and Comparative Literature from 1997 to 2000. He has been editor-in-chief of the journal Novel: A Forum on Fiction.
Works
Books Writing in Parts: Imitation and Exchange in 19th-Century Literature, Stanford University Press, 1995 Paperwork: Literature and Mass Mediacy in the Age of Paper, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005 Poetic Force: Poetry after Kant, Stanford University Press, 2014 The Philology of Life: Walter Benjamin's Critical Program, Fordham University Press, 2023
As Translator Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin (Translators)
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