Dr. Michael Disanto
Associate Professor
English and Film
Algoma University
Canada
Biography
Michael studies literature and philosophy of the long nineteenth century (1789 to 1914). He reads the novel as criticism, especially the ways in which the works of Joseph Conrad and D.H. Lawrence revalue, combat, and extend the art and thought of their intellectual and literary predecessors including George Eliot and Friedrich Nietzsche, among others.
Research Interest
Reading for Life; The Novel – The Bright Book of Life; Poetics, Politics and Revolution; Reading Darwin and His Contemporaries; Modern Ideas, Words, Styles; Contesting Modernity – Joseph Conrad and Friedrich Nietzsche; Politics and Literature; Crime and Punishment; Criticism, Aesthetics, Literature; and Four Quartets – The Quadraphonic Novel.
Publications
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The Complete Poems of George Whalley was published by McGill-Queen’s University Press (2016).
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The New Compass: A Critical Review.
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Under Conrad’s Eyes: The Novel as Criticism (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009)
