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English Department Faculty

Dr. Michael J. Davey

Associate Professor - Early and Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Office:  WH 235

Phone:  249-4950

Email:  mjdavey@valdosta.edu

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  • PhD Ohio State University

  • Articles on Susan Fenimore Cooper, James Fenimore Cooper, American romance

  • Editor, A Routledge Literary Sourcebook on Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick; or the Whale.  London: Routledge, 2003.

  • Works in Progress:

    • Book: Readers Reading Class: The Representation of Class and its Reception in the US, 1799-1883.  A narrative of the history of the representation of social hierarchy in American fiction, 1799 to 1883, and a study of how class formation and class struggle influenced nineteenth-century hermeneutics. Under contract - Kent State University Press

  • Research interests: Early and Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Literary and Material History of the Nineteenth Century; Narrative Theory; Reception Studies

  • Scholarly papers on Moby-Dick, reception theory, JF Cooper, Constance Fenimore Woolson, antebellum and early twentieth-century print culture, and the romance theory of the American novel.