Eric Lott

(1990)
Professor
American Studies, Cultural Studies

Degrees

Ph.D. Columbia, 1991
M.A. Columbia, 1984
B.A. Missouri, 1981

Books

  • Tangled Up in Blue: The Cultural Contradictions of American Racism.  Forthcoming.
  • The Disappearing Liberal Intellectual (Basic Books, 2006).
  • Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class. Oxford University Press, 1993; paperback, 1995.

Articles

  • “Criticism in the Vineyard: Twenty Years After ‘Race,’ Writing, and Difference.”  PMLA
    (forthcoming).
  • “Perfect Is Dead: Theodor Adorno, Karen Carpenter, and the Radio.”  Criticism (forthcoming).
  • "Just Like Jack Frost's Blues: Masking and Melancholia in Bob Dylan's 'Love and Theft,'" The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan, ed. Kevin Dettmar (forthcoming).
  • “Semi-Mojo, or, Shaft in Scarsdale: Michael Rogin and Comparative American Studies.” Comparative American Studies 6.1 (2008): 85-91.
  • “National Treasure, Global Value, and American Literary Studies.” American Literary History 20.1-2 (2008): 108-23.
  • “Anti-American Studies: 9/11, Patriotism, and the Nation-State.” Prospects: The Annual of American Cultural Studies (2005).
  • “The Wages of Liberalism: An Interview with Eric Lott.” minnesota review (2005).
  • “The First Boomer: Bill Clinton, George W., and Fictions of State.” Representations (2004).
  • “A Strange and Bitter Spectacle: James Allen’s Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America.” First of the Month Online (2002).
  • “Gadfly Interview with Eric Lott: On Bob Dylan’s ‘Love and Theft.’” Gadfly Online (2001).
  • “Boomer Liberalism: When the New Left Was Old.”  Transition 78 (1999): 24-44.  Rpt. as “The New Liberalism in America” in The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness.  Ed. Birgit Brander Rasmussen, Eric Klinenberg, Irene J. Nexica, and Matt Wray.  Durham: Duke UP, 2001.
  • “The Whiteness of Film Noir.”  American Literary History 9.3 (1997): 542-66.  Rpt. in: Whiteness: A Critical Reader.  Ed. Mike Hill.  New York: NYU Press, 1997; National Imaginaries, American Identities.  Ed. Larry J. Reynolds and Gordon Hutner.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 2000.
  • “After Identity, Politics: The Return of Universalism.” New Literary History (2000).

Honors

  • Princeton University Council for the Humanities Fellowship, 2001
  • Russell Nye Lecture, Michigan State University, 1999
  • NEH Fellowship 1996
  • MLA Best First Book Prize 1994
  • OAH Avery Craven Book Prize 1994
  • Myers Center for Human Rights Book Award 1994
  • Rourke Prize for Best American Quarterly Article 1992