John McGowan

Who is John McGowan?

John McGowan is the Ruel W. Tyson Jr. Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his A.B. from Georgetown University in 1974, his M.A. and Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1976 and 1978, respectively. McGowan is the author of five books:

American Liberalism: An Interpretation of Our Time

Democracy's Children: Intellectuals and the Rise of Cultural Politics

Co-author of Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism

Hannah Arendt: An Introduction

Hannah Arendt and the Meaning of Politics

Postmodernism and its Critics

Representation and Revelation: Victorian Realism from Carlyle to Yeats