Professor
dhack@umich.eduOffice Information:
3068 Tisch Hall
phone: 764-6435
hours: MW 12-1 and by appointment
Graduate Faculty; Nineteenth Century British; British; Novel and Narrative; Transatlantic; African American; Global and Transnational; Material Culture
Education/Degree:
Ph.D., UC-Berkeley 1998
Current Courses
ENGLISH 298-002
Introduction to Literary Studies
Highlighted Work and Publications
Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature
Daniel Hack
Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature(Princeton University Press, Fall 2016) (http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10899.html); related blog post: "The Sellout and a Tradition of Black Anglophilia" (http://blog.press.princeton.edu/2016/10/28/daniel-hack-the-sellout-and-a-tradition-of-black-anglophilia/);
The Material Interests of the Victorian Novel
Daniel Hack
Taking as his point of departure the competing uses of the critical term the materiality of writing, Daniel Hack turns to the past in this provocative new book to recover the ways in which the multiple aspects of writing now conjured by that term were represented and related to one another in the mid-nineteenth century. Diverging from much contemporary criticism, he argues that attention to the writing’s material components and contexts does not by itself constitute reading against the grain. On the contrary, the Victorian discourse on authorship and the novels Hack discusses—including works...
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Articles and Chapters
Daniel Hack
Articles and Chapters:
“Contending with Tennyson: Pauline Hopkins and the Victorian Presence in African American Literature,” American Literary History 28:3 (Fall 2016); “‘Flat Burglary’? A Course on Nineteenth-Century African American and British Literature and Transatlantic Print Culture,” Teaching Transatlanticism, ed. Linda Hughes and Sarah Robbins (University of Edinburgh Press, 2015); "Transatlantic Eliot: African American Connections," in The Blackwell Companion to George Eliot (2013); "The Last Victorian...
