David Mikics
Associate Professor
- Phone: (713) 743-2960
- Email: dmikics@uh.edu
- Office: 227D Roy Cullen Building
David Mikics has wide-ranging intellectual interests. Trained in Renaissance literature, he also writes on twentieth century poetry and fiction, continental philosophy, and literary theory. His published works include several books: 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), and A New Handbook of Literary Terms (Yale University Press, 2007). In 2001 Mikics won the University Teaching Excellence Award, and in 2004 he was a Fulbright Professor in Leipzig, Germany.
Education
- Ph.D., Yale University
- B.A., New York University
Research & Teaching Interests
Twentieth-Century Poetry, Literature and Philosophy, Contemporary Literature, English Renaissance
Current Book Project
Who Was Jacques Derrida? ( New Haven: Yale University Press (forthcoming).)
A summary evaluation of Derrida’s career together with portraits of some of his major precursors (Sartre, Husserl,Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger, J.L. Austin).
Selected Publications
Books
- A New Handbook of Literary Terms
(New Haven: Yale University Press, June 2007.) 348 pages. - The Romance of Individualism in Emerson and Nietzsche
Athens: Ohio University Press, 2003. 258 pages + notes. - The Limits of Moralizing: Pathos and Subjectivity in Spenser and Milton
(Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1994.) 277 pages + notes.
Recent Awards
- Houstoun Professorship, University of Houston, 2005-07
- Senior Fulbright Lectureship (University of Leipzig), Spring Term 2004
- Faculty Development Leave, Spring Term 2004 (concurrent with Fulbright teaching)
- University of Houston Teaching Excellence Award, 2001 (awarded annually to four faculty members in the university, which contains over one thousand faculty)
