Rate My Professor Donald Pease

Pease's scholarship spans 19th-century American literature, modern American drama, national narratives, imperial state exceptionalisms, biopolitics, and comparative and transnational American Studies, evidenced in his interpretive biography Theodor SEUSS Geisel (Oxford University Press, 2010) and works like New American Exceptionalism (University of Minnesota Press, 2009), nominated for the MLA James Russell Lowell Prize; Visionary Compacts: American Renaissance Writings in Cultural Context (University of Wisconsin Press, 1987), winner of the Mark Ingraham Prize; Cultures of U.S. Imperialism, co-edited with Amy Kaplan (Duke University Press, 1992); National Identities and Postnational Narratives (Duke University Press, 1994); and Futures of American Studies, co-edited with Robyn Wiegman (Duke University Press, 2002). Recent publications include “Ahab’s Electromagnetic Constitution” in Ahab Unbound (University of Minnesota Press, 2022) and “The Après-Coup: President Trump’s Counter-Transference of Power” (Amerikastudien/American Studies, 2021). Among his honors are a Guggenheim Fellowship (1989-1990), multiple NEH fellowships and directorships, Dartmouth Distinguished Teaching Award (1981), and the American Studies Association’s Bode-Pearson Prize for lifetime service (2012). Pease has edited volumes such as New Essays on the Rise of Silas Lapham (Cambridge University Press, 1991) and co-edited the Re-Mapping the Transnational series, shaping transnational approaches in American literary studies.