Degrees Held

Ph.D. Michigan State University, 2005

Academic Summary

Carey Mickalites received his PhD in Literature and Theory at Michigan State University in 2005, and is now assistant professor of English at the University of Memphis. His major research and teaching interests include Modernism, Modern and Contemporary British Fiction, material culture, Marxist theory, and psychoanalysis. While finishing his dissertation, he received the John A. Yunck Dissertation Fellowship (2004-05), and worked as assistant to the editor of the journal Postmodern Culture. He also received support for primary research at the British Library in London (summer 2003), and taught cultural studies courses at Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena, Germany (2000-02). He is working on a book on modern British fiction, consumer psychology, and economies of loss.

Courses Taught

7/8291 Modern British Novel (“Economies of Modernism”)
3220 British Literature Since 1750

Representative Publications

• “Dubliners’ IOU: The Aesthetics of Exchange in ‘After the Race’ and ‘Two Gallants’.” Journal of Modern Literature 30.2 (2007): 121-138.
• “The Good Soldier and Capital’s Interiority Complex.” Studies in the Novel 38.3 (2006): 286-301.