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 institution in Taipei City. He writes primarily about American Romanticism and Modernism and works in the field of Digital Humanities, serving as a senior editor with the University of Virginia’s Digital Yoknapatawpha. His first book, American Metempsychosis, was published with Fordham University Press, and he is the author of numerous articles and book chapters in areas ranging from literature to philosophy to the history of ideas.
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)