Giles Gunn

Giles Gunn

Areas of Interest

• American Literary and Cultural Studies
• Global Studies
• Literary Theory and Criticism
• American Intellectual and Religious Studies

Books and Recent Articles

• "America's Gods," American Literary History, 19/1 (Spring 2007)
• "On Edward Said," Raritan, 23/4 (Spring, 2004)
• Beyond Solidarity: Pragmatism and Difference in a Globalized World (University of Chicago Press, 2001)
• Thinking Across the American Grain: Ideology, Intellect, and the New Pragmatism (University of Chicago Press, 1992)
• The Culture of Criticism and the Criticism of Culture (Oxford University Press, 1987)
• The Interpretation of Otherness: Literature, Religion, and the American Imagination (Oxford University Press, 1979)
• F.O. Matthiessen: The Critical Achievement (The University of Washington Press, 1975)
• "The Pragmatics of the Aesthetic," Real: the Yearbook of Research in English & American Literature 15 (1999)
• "Beyond Transcendence or Beyond Ideology: The New Problematics of Cultural Criticism in America," American Literary History 2(1) (1990)
• Editor, A Historical Guide to Herman Melville (Oxford University Press, 2005)
• Editor (with Carl Gutierrez-Jones), War Narratives and American Culture (American Cultures and Global Contexts Center, 2005)
• Editor, William James Pragmatism and Other Writings (Penguin, 2000)
• Editor (with Stephen Greenblatt) of Redrawing the Boundaries: The Transformation of English and American Literary Studies (Modern Language Association, 1992)
• Editor, Early American Writing (Penguin, 1994)
• Editor, Church, State, and American Culture (University of North Carolina Press,1984)
• Editor, The Bible and American Arts and Letters (Fortress, 1983)
• Editor, New World Metaphysics: Reading on the Religious Meaning of the American Experience (Oxford University Press, 1981)
• Editor, Henry James, Senior: A Selection of His Writing (American Library Association, 1974)
• Editor, Literature and Religion (Harper and Row, 1971)

Current Projects

• Editor (with Carl Gutierrez-Jones), America and the Misshaping of a New World Order (University of California Press, 2009)
• "The Place of Culture in the Play of International Politics," in America and the Misshaping of a New World Order
• "Ideas to Die For: Pragmatism in a World of Terror" in PRAGMATISM AND GLOBALISM, ed. Thomas C. Hilde
• "The Transcivilizational, the Intercivilizational, and the Human, The Transcivilizational, the Intercivilizational, and the Human: The Quest for the Normative in the Legitimacy Debate," Legitimacy and Legality in the International Order, ed. by Richard Falk
• Book on the human in an age of terror
• Essays on "global ethics" and "global literature"

Recent Course Offerings

• Theories of Inter- and Cross-Cultural Understanding
• Global History, Cultures, and Ideologies
• Global Literatures
• Globalizing American Studies
• Herman Melville
• Literature and Modern Terror
• American Literature and Otherness
• Early American Writing
• Democracy and Modern American Literature