Bruce Michelson

Bruce Michelson (Course Guide and website author), Ph.D. University of Washington, is Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Director of the Campus Honors Program. His books include Printer's Devil: Mark Twain and the American Publishing Revolution ; Literary Wit ; Mark Twain on the Loose ; and Wilbur's Poetry: Music in a Scattering Time . He has also published scores of articles and book chapters on American writers from Hawthorne and Dickinson through...See more

Bruce Michelson (Course Guide and website author), Ph.D. University of Washington, is Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Director of the Campus Honors Program. His books include Printer's Devil: Mark Twain and the American Publishing Revolution ; Literary Wit ; Mark Twain on the Loose ; and Wilbur's Poetry: Music in a Scattering Time . He has also published scores of articles and book chapters on American writers from Hawthorne and Dickinson through Saul Bellow, Robert Lowell, and Garrison Keillor. He was a Fulbright Senior Lecturer in Belgium and is currently vice president of the Mark Twain Circle of America. See less