Michael Jonik, visiting professor at Ihrim

Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature, University of Sussex, UK - Visiting Professor 2022-23 - April 17 to 27, 2023 - Inviting Professor: François Specq Michael Jonik is an internationally recognized researcher of authors, primarily from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Edwards, Melville, Dickinson, Thoreau, Emerson and James). Michael Jonik teaches contemporary American Literature and Critical Theory at the University of Sussex. He was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Cornell University Society for the Humanities. Michael Jonik is one of the most active and prolific European scholars in the field of American Literature. He has published numerous studies of a wide range of American authors in the most prestigious journals and publishers (Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, etc.) and has given guest lectures at numerous universities. He is one of the convenors of one of the major international research networks on nineteenth-century American literature, Branca (British Association of Nineteenth-Century Americanists). His current research project, foreshadowed by some of his recent articles, is on Henry David Thoreau: Thoreau's Radical Ecologies: Philosophy, Politics, Collective Agency (accepted by University of Minnesota Press).