Clifford Siskin

Ph.D. 1978, M.A. 1975, University of Virginia;

B.A. 1972 Stanford University.

Literary, social, and technological change, 1700-1850 (British); print culture and digital culture; literary theory and genre theory; the organization of knowledge.

Co-editor, Palgrave Studies in Enlightenment, Romanticism, and the Cultures of Print; Editorial and Advisory Boards--Eighteenth-Century Studies, Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Literature and History, Genre, Novel, Studies in the Novel, Encyclopedia of Romanticism, Corvey Project on Women's Writing; Member--MLA, ASECS, BARS, NASSR, Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society.

Waynflete Lecturer and Honorary Fellow, Magdalen College, Oxford; Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Glasgow University, Fellow, Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University; Visiting Scholar, Stanford Humanities Center; Roger Henkle Memorial Lecturer, Brown University; Elected to Executive Committees--Late Eighteenth-Century Division MLA, Romantic Division MLA, British Association for Romantic Studies.

Clifford Siskin is the Henry W. and Alfred A. Berg Professor of English and American Literature at New York University and the Director of The Re:Enlightenment Project and the North American Concept Lab. His subject is the interrelations of literary, social, and technological change. Links between past and present inform all of his work, from his sequencing of the genres of subjectivity (The Historicity of Romantic Discourse, Oxford) to his recovery of literature's role in the formation of the modern disciplines (The Work of Writing: Literature and Social Change in Britain 1700-1830, Hopkins). He is also co-editor, with William Warner, of This Is Enlightenment, a volume that offers an answer to the question Kant made famous: What is Enlightenment? (Chicago, 2010). His latest monograph asks when and how the central genre of Enlightenment became the thing that we now love to blame: the SYSTEM: The Shaping of Modern Knowledge (MIT, 2016). Professor Siskin is also co-editor, with Anne Mellor, of the Palgrave-Macmillan monograph series in "Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print." He has been the George Delacorte Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University, the A. C. Bradley Chair at the University of Glasgow, the Waynflete Lecturer at Magdalen College, Oxford, a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, and Chair of English at SUNY Stony Brook.