Dan R. Latimer, Professor, received his PhD in comparative
literature from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has been
co-editor of Southern Humanities Review since 1984 and specializes
in European Romanticism, the History of Literary Criticism, the Symbolist
Novel, and Children's Literature. He is the author of Contemporary
Critical Theory (1989) and has published articles in New
Orleans Review, New Left Review, Essays in Literature,
and Modern Language Notes.
In 1996, he was awarded the Auburn University Faculty Achievement
Award in the Humanities. He is a longstanding member of the Southern
Humanities Council, dedicated to the promotion of the liberal arts
in regional communities.
Representative Publications
"The 'Golden, Holy Cord of Calculation': Collodi's Second Thoughts on Pinocchio," The Comparatist 28 (June 2004) 113-134.
"The La Brea Tar Pits, Tongues of Fire: Helena María Viramontes's Under the Feet of Jesus and Its Background," Soundings 85, No. 3-4 (Fall/Winter 2002) 323-346.
"American Neopragmatism and its Background," Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Vol. 9 (2001).
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