John McGowan (professor)
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John McGowan is the Ruel W. Tyson Jr. Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
. He received his A.B. from Georgetown University
in 1974, his M.A. and Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1976 and 1978, respectively. McGowan is the author of five books:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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. He received his A.B. from Georgetown University
Georgetown University
Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...
in 1974, his M.A. and Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1976 and 1978, respectively. McGowan is the author of five books:
- American Liberalism: An Interpretation of Our Time (2007)
- Democracy's Children: Intellectuals and the Rise of Cultural Politics (2002)
- Co-author of Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism (2001)
- Hannah Arendt: An Introduction (1998)
- Hannah Arendt and the Meaning of Politics (1997)
- Postmodernism and its Critics (1991)
- Representation and Revelation: Victorian Realism from Carlyle to Yeats (1986)