Zachary Tavlin

Zachary Tavlin teaches in the Liberal Arts department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He received his PhD in English Literature from the University of Washington, where he also served as assistant editor at Modern Language Quarterly. He has been the Allan and Mary Kollar Fellow in American Literature and Art History, the Richard M. Willner Memorial Scholar in Jewish Studies, a Joff Hanauer Fellow in Western Civilization, and has received research awards from the Emily Dickinson International Society and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society. His research focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature and poetics, the history of philosophy, critical theory, and the visual arts. He has published widely on a variety of topics, appearing in Critical Inquiry, Diacritics, ESQ, J19, English, The Comparatist, Continental Philosophy Review, Mississippi Quarterly, Comparative Literature, Theatre Journal, Transatlantica, and Wallace Stevens Journal among many other venues. His first book, Glancing Visions: American Literature beyond the Gaze, is forthcoming with the University of Alabama Press.