Duke the Program In Literature

  • Michael M Morton

  • Associate Professor
  • Literature
  • 116E Old Chemistry
  • Campus Box 90256
  • Phone: (919) 660-3169
  • Fax: (919) 660-3166
  • Homepage

  • Specialties

    • 18th Century Literature
    • Critical Theory
    • Literary History & Criticism

  • Research Summary

    Philosophy & Literature, Intellectual History

  • Education

      • Ph.D.,
      • University of Virginia,
      • 1981
      • M.A.,
      • University of Massachusetts,
      • 1977
      • A.B.,
      • Stanford University,
      • 1971

  • Awards, Honors and Distinctions

      • Peter Suhrkamp Prize,
      • German Quarterly,
      • 1991
      • American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship,
      • 1984-85
      • Mellon Faculty Fellowship,
      • Harvard University,
      • 1984-85
      • Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Fellowship,
      • 1980-81

  • Recent Publications

      • M.M. Morton.
      • "Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803)."
      • Encyclopedia of Europe: 1789-1914.
      • (forthcoming).
      • M.M. Morton.
      • "Lessing's and Herder's Wie die Alten den Tod gebildet: A Critical Analysis of the Arguments."
      • Lessing Yearbook
      • 35
      • (2003)
      • :
      • 137-68.
      • M.M. Morton.
      • "Narrative and Consciousness in E. T. A. Hoffmann's Der goldene Topf."
      • Die Goethezeit: Werke-Wirkung-Wechselbeziehungen; Eine Festschrift für Wilfried Malsch.
      • Ed. Jeffrey L. High.
      • Göttingen: Verlag von Schwerin,
      • 2001.
      • 231-58.
      • M.M. Morton.
      • "Contemporary Theory and the German Tradition: Some Stages in the Emergence of Critical Realism."
      • Politics in German Literature: Essays in Memory of Frank G. Ryder.
      • Ed. Beth Bjorklund and Mark E. Cory.
      • Columbia: Camden House,
      • 1998.
      • 195-215.
      • M.M. Morton.
      • "Critical Realism and the 'Critique of the Concept'."
      • Herder Yearbook
      • 4
      • (1998)
      • :
      • 177-89.
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