David Mikics

 ( 1961 Births ) 

David Mikics is the Moores Distinguished Professor in the Department of English and the Honors College, University of Houston.

His book on Stanley Kubrick in the Yale Jewish Lives series was published in 2020. His book about Saul Bellow entitled Bellow’s People: How Saul Bellow Made Life Into Art (W.W. Norton) was published in 2016. Mikics, a Guggenheim Fellow for 2017, is a regular columnist for Tablet magazine. He lives with his wife and son in Brooklyn and Houston.

• Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker, Yale University Press, 2020
• The American Canon by Harold Bloom (Editor), Library of America, 2020
• Bellow's People: How Saul Bellow Made Life Into Art,W.W. Norton and Co., 2016
• Slow Reading in a Hurried Age, Harvard/Belknap, 2013
• The Annotated Emerson(Editor), Harvard/Belknap, 2012
• The Art of the Sonnet, (with Stephanie Burt) Harvard/Belknap, 2011
• Who Was Jacques Derrida? Yale University Press, 2009
• A New Handbook of Literary Terms, Yale University Press, 2007
• The Romance of Individualism in Emerson and Nietzsche, Ohio University Press, 2003