Kevin Attell
Assistant Professor
Graduate Faculty Member
- Degrees
- University of California at Berkeley
Ph.D. - University of California at Berkeley
B.A.
Bio
Before joining the Cornell English department, Kevin Attell received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley and was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins University. His research focuses primarily on twentieth-century American, British and Irish literature as well as literary and critical theory. He is currently working on two book projects: an examination of modern national epic fiction, titled National Characters, and a study of the work of the contemporary Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, whose books The Open and State of Exception he has translated.
Research and Teaching Interests
- Literary modernism and postmodernism
- Literary and critical theory
- History and theory of the novel
- Film studies
Current Projects
- Agamben and Deconstruction (book manuscript)
- National Characters: Modern Epic Fiction and the Question of National Identity (book manuscript)