Committee on Degrees in History and Literature at Harvard

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Bio

• NAME: Kevin Birmingham - Starting in History and Literature September 2009
• FIELD IN HISTORY AND LITERATURE: America
• Ph.D.: English (Harvard University)
• AREAS OF INTEREST:
  • Twentieth-Century American Fiction and Culture
  • The avant-garde
  • The history of obscenity
  • Race and aesthetics
  • Cosmopolitanism
  • Collective memory
  • Critical theory
  • Film
  • Pop Art
  • Graffiti
• DISSERTATION TOPIC OR TITLE: "The One-Drop Aesthetic: How Literary Formalism Reinvented Race in the Twentieth Century"
• E-MAIL ADDRESS: birmingh@fas
• OFFICE: Barker 041
• OFFICE PHONE: 5-3337

Department Address and Contact Information

• Barker Center 122, Cambridge, MA 02138
• Phone: (617) 495-4029 | Fax: (617) 496-5605 | Email: histlit@fas.harvard.edu

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