Michael North

Michael North is an American literary critic and a professor in the department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Background North received a B.A. from Stanford University in 1973 and Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut in 1980. North taught at the College of William and Mary before joining the University of California, Los Angeles in 1991.

He became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012.

Publications Novelty: A History of the New, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, , 2013 Machine-Age Comedy, 2009 Camera Works: Photography and the Twentieth-Century Word, 2005 Reading 1922: A Return to the Scene of the Modern, 2002 The Waste Land (Norton Critical Editions), 2001 (editor) The Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language, and Twentieth-Century Literature, 1994 The Political Aesthetic of Yeats, Eliot, and Pound, 1992 Henry Green and the Writing of His Generation,1984