John Ronan teaches and researches in early American literature and critical theory and is the faculty sponsor for Sigma Tau Delta at Rhodes for 2008-9. He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, and taught at U.C. Santa Cruz and the University of Memphis before joining the Rhodes English Department in 2008. His published work (either in print or forthcoming) includes articles on Emerson, Melville, Thoreau, and Tabucchi as well as translations of Cavarero and Lyotard.
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley, 2001
B.A., English and Italian, University of California, Berkeley, 1990
English 151 - First Year Writing Seminar
English 265 - Special Topics, Character in Antebellum America
English 380 - Topics in Literary Study, Extraordinary Lives: The Autobiographical Origins of American Literature
“Melville and Emersonian Character”
Forthcoming in Emerson for the Twenty-First Century
University of Delaware Press
“Emerson’s Autobiographical Philosophy”
Forthcoming in Emerson for the Twenty-First Century
University of Delaware Press
“Thoreau’s Declaration of Independence from Emerson in Walden”
Nineteenth-Century Prose, Volume 33, Number 1 (2006), 133-165.
“Verso una leggerezza compiuta”
Forum Italicum, Volume 33, Number 1 (1999), 239-48.
Translation from Italian. Adriana Cavarero, “Politicizing Theory,” Political Theory, Volume 30, Number 4 (2002), 506-32; reprinted in What is Political Theory, edited by Stephen K. White and J. Donald Moon (London: Sage Publications, 2004), 54-79.
Translation from French. Jean-François Lyotard, “Anamnesis of the Visible 2,” Qui Parle, Volume 11, Number 2 (1999), 21-36.