Richard M. Cook
Professor
Department Chair
446 Lucas Hall
314-516-5516
rcook@umsl.edu
B.A. Franklin and Marshall College
M.A. Lehigh University
Ph.D University of Michigan
Richard M. Cook, currently Chair of the English department at UM-St. Louis, teaches courses in American literature, literary criticism, biography, and autobiography. His most recent book, Alfred Kazin: A Biography, was published by Yale University Press in January of 2008. Other publications include a book on Carson McCullers and articles on Herman Melville, William Faulkner, Edmund Wilson, Lionel Trilling, and American literary criticism.. He has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright teaching fellowship to West Germany, and a National Endowment of the Humanities research fellowship. He is currently preparing an edition of the Journals of Alfred Kazin to be published by Yale University Press.