Michael Kimmage, Assistant Professor

Ph.D., 2004, Harvard University

Main Fields: American intellectual history; twentieth-century U.S. politics

Contact: kimmage@cua.edu, Phone: 202 714 3199

Office Hours, Spring 2009: Wednesday 1:30-3 PM

• The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers, and the Lessons of Anti-Communism.

• "The Modern Hero as Schlemiel" in Arguing the Modern Jewish Canon (Harvard University Press, 2008)

• "Protocons: Book Review of Donald Critchlow 'The Conservative Ascendancy'" New York Times Book Review (November 18, 2007)

  http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/books/review/Kimmage-t.html

Current Research:

• In History's Grip: Philip Roth's Newark Trilogy (book project)

Courses Taught:

• History 388: Junior Seminar

• History 258: U.S. History Survey

• History 638: Graduate Seminar: History and Literature