Michael Warner

Who is Michael Warner?

Michael Warner is a literary critic, social theorist, and Seymour H. Knox Professor of English Literature and American Studies at Yale University. He also writes for Art Forum, The Nation, The Advocate, and The Village Voice. He is the author of Publics and Counterpublics, The Trouble With Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life, The English Literatures of America, 1500-1800, Fear of a Queer Planet, and The Letters of the Republic. He also edited The Portable Walt Whitman and American Sermons: The Pilgrims to Martin Luther King, Jr.

Warner achieved his B.A. from Oral Roberts University in 1979, and two M.As, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and The Johns Hopkins University, in 1981 and 1983 respectively. He received his Ph.D. in English from Johns Hopkins University in 1986. Warner assumed his position at Yale University in 2007, and became Seymour H. Knox Professor of English Literature and American studies in 2008. Prior to his work at Yale, he taught at Northwestern University and Rutgers University.

Warner, who is gay, is highly influential in the fields of Early American literature, social theory, and queer theory.