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Michael Prince
mprince@bu.edu
Associate Professor. B.A., Stanford; Ph.D., Virginia
Teaching and Research Interests: 18th-century literature; intellectual history; aesthetics; composition pedagogy
Selected Publications: A Guide to College Composition (forthcoming); Philosophical Dialogue in the English Enlightenment (1996); "Editing Shaftesbury's Characteristicks," Essays in Criticism 54 (2004); "Mauvais Genres," New Literary History 34 (2003); "Heidegger's Turn to Poetry and the Paradox of Overcoming," Fulcrum 2 (2003); "The Eighteenth-Century Beauty Contest," Modern Language Quarterly 55 (1994); "Literacy and Genre," College English 51 (1989).
Work in Progress: A history of rhetoric during the 18th-century; essays on the novel, and composition pedagogy
Honors, Grants, and Awards: ACLS Fellow (1991-92)
Links to Selected Works:
A Rescue Plan for College Composition and High-School English
A Preliminary Discourse on Philosophy and Literature
Literacy and Genre: Towards a Pedagogy of Mediation
A New Beginning in College Writing
The Eighteenth-Century Beauty Contest