Anthony Hutchison

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Teaching Summary

I have taught core and optional modules in US literature, history, thought and culture. This teaching has mostly been text-based with primary works studied ranging from seventeenth century Puritan… read more

Research Summary

I am currently working on a critical-biographical study of the American writer John Williams. This has been supported by a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant.

Recent Publications

• HUTCHISON, A., 2020. Cultivating the Classical Style: The Stanford-Denver Creative Writing Axis Modern Fiction Studies. 66(3), 474-498
• HUTCHISON, A., 2020. “Young America” and the Anti-Emersonian Western: John Williams’s Butcher’s Crossing Western American Literature. 55(3), 237-260
• HUTCHISON, A., 2017. Character and Charismatic Authority in Robert Penn Warren's All The King's Men and Edwin O'Connor's The Last Hurrah. In: MARTIN GRIFFIN and CHRISTOPHER HEBERT, eds., Stories of Nation: Fictions, Politics, and the American Experience University of Tennessee Press. 149-166
• HUTCHISON, A., 2013. Cold War Humanism and Beyond: Postmodern Subjectivity and Humanist Literary Critique in Rorty and Eggers. In: ROBERTO CANTÚ, ed., An Insatiable Dialectic: Essays on Modernity, Critique and Humanism Cambridge Scholars Press. (In Press.)

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I have taught core and optional modules in US literature, history, thought and culture. This teaching has mostly been text-based with primary works studied ranging from seventeenth century Puritan sermons to twenty-first century manifestos related to digital culture. I have also taught at postgraduate level for a number of years in similar areas.

The doctoral theses I have so far supervised to completion in many ways reflect the multi- and interdisciplinary nature of my teaching and research interests. They have covered topics such as the philosophies of Richard Rorty and Stanley Cavell; the twentieth century African-American literary canon; the fiction of suburbia and post-suburbia; the culture of the American Left and Latin America in the 1980s; and the 60s protest memoir.

At present I am supervising work that explores masculinity and mid-twentieth century nuclear shelter culture as well as a comparative study of the "third way" approach to welfare policy that was a feature of the New Democrats under Bill Clinton and New Labour in the Blair-Brown years,

Past Research

My previous research was a study of American political fiction. It involved studies of several major works by Gore Vidal, Lionel Trilling, Russell Banks and Philip Roth. I have written on American music and have also recently completed work on some contemporary American fiction by George Saunders and Dave Eggers as well as a piece on the concept of "charisma" in US political fiction. I have also published on the status and treatment of Abraham Lincoln within US intellectual history. I would welcome the opportunity to supervise postgraduate students on any of these or related topics.

Future Research

In the longer term I have an interest in pursuing research on post WWII Anglo-American thought and literary culture. I am particularly interested in race-class tensions and how these were understood and negotiated by liberal intellectuals (writers, artists, commentators).

• HUTCHISON, A., 2020. Cultivating the Classical Style: The Stanford-Denver Creative Writing Axis Modern Fiction Studies. 66(3), 474-498
• HUTCHISON, A., 2020. “Young America” and the Anti-Emersonian Western: John Williams’s Butcher’s Crossing Western American Literature. 55(3), 237-260
• HUTCHISON, A., 2017. Character and Charismatic Authority in Robert Penn Warren's All The King's Men and Edwin O'Connor's The Last Hurrah. In: MARTIN GRIFFIN and CHRISTOPHER HEBERT, eds., Stories of Nation: Fictions, Politics, and the American Experience University of Tennessee Press. 149-166
• HUTCHISON, A., 2013. Cold War Humanism and Beyond: Postmodern Subjectivity and Humanist Literary Critique in Rorty and Eggers. In: ROBERTO CANTÚ, ed., An Insatiable Dialectic: Essays on Modernity, Critique and Humanism Cambridge Scholars Press. (In Press.)
• HUTCHISON, A., 2013. Immaterial world: precarity and post-industrial labor in George Saunders’s “Sea Oak” and Dave Eggers��s A Hologram for the King C21 Literature: Journal of 21st Century Writings. 2(1), 3-20
• HUTCHISON, A., 2010. "Following the ghost": the psychogeography of alternative country. In: BLANCO, M.D.P. and PEEREN, E., eds., Popular ghosts: the haunted spaces of everyday culture Continuum. 268-281
• HUTCHISON, A., 2009. "All the men of great affairs": The Barnard statue, Manchester liberalism, and Lincoln intellectual history American Literary History. 21(4), 793-809
• HUTCHISON, A., 2007. Writing the Republic: Liberalism and Morality in American Political Fiction New York: Columbia University Press.
• HUTCHISON, A., 2007. Representative Man: John Brown and the Politics of Redemption in Russell Banks’s Cloudsplitter Journal of American Studies. 41(1), 67-82
• HUTCHISON, A, 2006. Freedom, Necessity, Judgment:: Trilling, Arendt and 9/11 Liberalism Comparative American Studies. 4(1), 67-84
• HUTCHISON, A., 2005. 'Purity is Petrefaction': Liberalism and Betrayal in Philip Roth’s I Married A Communist” Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice. 9(2-3), 315-327