Michael A. North

University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California ~Professor of English. Literary critic and cultural historian. Known for studies of the intersections between modern British and American literature and the visual arts (especially photography, film, and sculpture) as well as studies of the influence of racial theories, dialect, and popular culture on the aesthetics of both white and black writers. Works include Novelty: A History of the New (2013), Machine-Age Comedy (2009), Camera Works: Photography and the Twentieth-Century Word (2005), The Waste Land: Authoritative Texts, Contexts, Criticism (2001), Reading 1922: A Return to the Scene of the Modern (1999), The Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language, and Twentieth-Century Literature (1994), The Political Aesthetic of Yeats, Eliot, and Pound (1991), The Final Sculpture: Public Monuments and Modern Poets (1985), and Henry Green and the Writing of His Generation (1984).~~