Profile Information
Dominic Mastroianni
Associate Professor, American literature
Contact
Office: 608 Strode
Email: dbm@clemson.edu
Education
Ph.D. English, Emory University; M.A. English, Georgetown University; B.A. Psychology, Georgetown University
Courses
19th-Century US Literature, Transcendentalism, History of Philosophy
Areas of Interest: American Literature, Nineteenth-Century Intellectual History, Philosophy
Selected Professional Works
Books (Published)
Politics and Skepticism in Antebellum American Literature. Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Journal Articles & Book Chapters (Published)
“Perfectionist Pierre.” In The New Melville Studies. Ed. Cody Marrs. Cambridge University Press, 2019.
“Transcendentalism Without Escape,” American Literary History 31, no. 3 (2019): 575–585.
“Revolutionary Time and Democracy’s Causes in Melville’s Pierre.” In Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities. Ed. Robert S. Levine and Cindy Weinstein. Norton Critical Edition (Norton, 2017)
"Astonishing Politics: Emerson, Levinas, and Thinking Beyond Virility." Comparative Literature 66, no. 3 (2014): 301-21.
"Hospitality and the Thresholds of the Human in Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym." Studies in American Fiction 40, no. 2 (2013): 185-202.
"Revolutionary Time and the Future of Democracy in Melville's Pierre." ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 56, no. 4 (2011): 391-423. Winner of the 2012 Hennig Cohen Prize, awarded by The Melville Society for "excellence in scholarship and writing in an article or book chapter on Melville."
