Department of English

Michael McKeon, Professor II and Board of Governors Professor of Literature at Rutgers University, has written three books on topics in interdisciplinary British Studies: Politics and Poetry in Restoration England (Harvard, 1975), The Origins of the English Novel (Hopkins, 1987) (which won the MLA James Russell Lowell Prize for best book of the year), and The Secret History of Domesticity (Hopkins, 2005), which has been the subject of several academic meetings, including a "Roundtable" at the North American Conference on British Studies Annual Meeting, Cambridge, MA in 2006 and a one-day “Workshop" at the ”Making Publics Project, 1500-1700," McGill University, Montréal, in 2007. McKeon also has edited the anthology Theory of the Novel: A Historical Approach (Hopkins, 2000). He has served on two Executive Committees of the MLA and on the Supervising Committee of the English Institute. At Rutgers this Fall McKeon is teaching his fourth and final dissertation seminar on "Problems in Historical Interpretation for Literary Scholars," supported by the Mellon Foundation.

• “Literary and Graphic Images of Intimacy in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England”
  Interfaces: Image, Texte, Language 28, 2008
• “Response to my Commentators”
  Histoire Sociale / Social History 40.80, 2007
• “Civic Humanism and the Logic of Historical Interpretation”
  The Political Imagination in History: Essays concerning J.G.A. Pocock (2006)
• "Recent Studies in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century"
  SEL: Studies in English Literature 45.3, Summer 2005
• “Parsing Habermas’s ‘Bourgeois Public Sphere’”
  Criticism 46.2, Spring 2004
• “Watt’s Rise of the Novel within the Tradition of the Rise of the Novel”
  Eighteenth-Century Fiction 12.2-3, 2000
• “Tacit Knowledge: Tradition and Its Aftermath”
  Storiografia 2, 1998
• “Surveying the Frontier of Culture: Pastoralism in Eighteenth-Century England”
  Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 26 (1998)
• “What Were Poems on Affairs of State?”
  1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 4, 1997
• “Historicizing Patriarchy: The Emergence of Gender Difference in England, 1660-1760”
  Eighteenth-Century Studies 28.3, Spring 1995
• “The Origins of Interdisciplinary Studies”
  Eighteenth-Century Studies 28.1, Fall 1994

• Eighteenth-Century Novel and Literature
• History of Literary Theory
• Political Poetry

• Early Novel
• Foundations of Eighteenth-Century British Literature
• Pastoral Poetry
• The Public and the Private in British Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century
• Theory of the Novel

• Fellow, Rutgers University Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, 1994-95
• Rutgers University Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research, 1991-92

• Member, Committee on Gender Equity, Rutgers University, 2000 - 2001
• Member, Promotion Review Committee, Rutgers University, 2001
• Member, Board of Editors, SEL, 1997 -
• Member, Advisory Committee, PMLA, 1994-97

• New British Studies Center Positions Rutgers as Venue for Interdisciplinary Scholarship
• "Lynn Festa: New Faculty Profile" by Michael McKeon (Future Traditions Magazine, Issue 2)
• "Rutgers British Studies Project: An Interdisciplinary Collaboration" by Michael McKeon (Future Traditions Magazine, Issue 2)
• "Hitlers List: A Lesson on German Act" by Michael McKeon
  (Future Traditions Magazine, Issue 1)
• Review essay of The Secret History of Domesticity by John Richetti (Eighteenth Century Fiction)
• "The Secret History of Almost Everything" Review essay of The Secret History of Domesticity by Erin Mackie (Eighteenth-Century Life)