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 is currently Chair of the English department at UM-St. Louis. He has been the recipient of a Fulbright teaching fellowship to West Germany and a National Endowment of the Humanities research fellowship. His most recent book, Alfred Kazin: A Biography, was published by Yale University Press in January of 2008. His other publications include a book on Carson McCullers and articles on Herman Melville, William Faulkner, Edmund Wilson, Lionel Trilling, and American literary criticism in American Literature, American Literary History, Emerson Society Quarterly and other journals. He teaches courses in American literature, literary criticism, biography and autobiography. He is currently preparing an edition of the Journals of Alfred Kazin to be published by Yale University Press.