David Mikics

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 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) was published in 2016. Mikics, a Guggenheim Fellow for 2017, 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 and Houston.

Bibliography

• Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker, Yale University Press, 2020
• The American Canon by Harold Bloom (Editor), Library of America, 2020
• Bellow's People: How Saul Bellow Made Life Into Art,W.W. Norton and Co., 2016
• Slow Reading in a Hurried Age, Harvard/Belknap, 2013
• The Annotated Emerson(Editor), Harvard/Belknap, 2012
• The Art of the Sonnet, (with Stephanie Burt) Harvard/Belknap, 2011
• Who Was Jacques Derrida? Yale University Press, 2009
• A New Handbook of Literary Terms, Yale University Press, 2007
• The Romance of Individualism in Emerson and Nietzsche, Ohio University Press, 2003