ABOUT ME
John Michael Corrigan earned his PhD from the University of Toronto and was a postdoctoral fellow at Emory University. He currently teaches at National Chengchi University, a public research university in Taiwan. His books include Faulkner's Cartographies of Consciousness (Cambridge UP, forthcoming), American Metempsychosis: Emerson, Whitman, and the New Poetry (Fordham UP, 2012), and the co-edited volume Romantic Legacies (Routledge 2019). He serves as a senior editor with the University of Virginia’s Digital Yoknapatawpha.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Digital Humanities
William Faulkner; Digital Yoknapatawpha
20th-century American Literature
Modernism
19th-century American Literature
American Renaissance
ACADEMIC HISTORY
2014 - Present
National Chengchi University
Professor of American Literature and Digital Humanities
2012 - 2013
Emory University
Postdoctoral Fellow
Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry
Esotericism and the History of Religion
Neoplatonism, Hermeticism, Platonic Orientalism,
Vedic Philosophy, Taoism, Buddhism
2010 - 2014
Ming Chuan University
Assistant Professor of American Literature and English Language
2009 - 2010
University of Toronto
Research Fellow, Centre for the Study of the United States
2002 - 2009
University of Toronto
PhD in English Literature
2000 - 2002
University of Saskatchewan
M.A. in English Literature
1996 - 1999
St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan
B.A. (Honors): English Literature (Major); Philosophy (Minor)