
Phillip Brian Harper
Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Literature; Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Science
Education
- 1988 Ph.D. in English, Cornell
- 1986 M.A. in Creative Writing, Cornell
- 1985 M.F.A. in Creative Writing, Cornell
- 1981 B.A. in Creative Writing and Literature, Michigan.
Modern Language Association; American Studies Association; Modernist Studies Association; Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present
Phil Harper is a literary scholar and cultural critic concerned primarily with
Harper’s most recent book, Abstractionist Aesthetics (NYU Press, 2015), considers the social-critical potential of abstractionism—as contrasted with realism—in African-American expressive culture. Harper is currently investigating the function of “the contemporary” within US literary culture, and he will next be conducting ethnographic work among present-day non-professional readers of literature to determine what interpretive practices they deploy in their engagements with fictional texts. As is allowed by his responsibilities as Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Science, Harper teaches courses in modern and postmodern literature, African-American literary and cultural studies, and materialist cultural theory, among other topics.
Publications
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New York: NYU Press, 2015.
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New York: NYU Press. 1999.
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New York: Oxford UP. 1996.
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New York: Oxford UP. 1994.
Contact Information
Phillip Brian Harper
Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Literature; Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Science phil.harper@nyu.edu 6 Washington Square North1st Flr
New York, NY 10003
Phone: (212) 998-8040