David Mikics

David Mikics
Awards	Guggenheim Fellowship (2017)
Academic work
Discipline	English literature
Sub-discipline	20th-century Jewish arts and culture
Institutions	New College of Florida University of Houston
Main interests	Jewish arts and culture, Saul Bellow, Stanley Kubrick

David Mikics is a professor of English at the New College of Florida. ^[1] He was the Moores Distinguished Professor in the Department of English and the Honors College, University of Houston. ^[2]

His book on Stanley Kubrick in the Yale Jewish Lives series was published in 2020. His book about Saul Bellow entitled Bellow’s People: How Saul Bellow Made Life Into Art (W.W. Norton) was published in 2016. ^[3] Mikics, a Guggenheim Fellow for 2017, is a regular reviewer and columnist for Tablet magazine and The Jewish Review of Books, writing about 20th-century Jewish arts and culture. ^{[4] [5]} He lives with his wife and son in Brooklyn and Houston.

Bibliography

• Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker, Yale University Press, 2020
• The American Canon by Harold Bloom (Editor), Library of America, 2020
• Bellow's People: How Saul Bellow Made Life Into Art,W.W. Norton and Co., 2016
• Slow Reading in a Hurried Age, Harvard/Belknap, 2013
• The Annotated Emerson(Editor), Harvard/Belknap, 2012
• The Art of the Sonnet, (with Stephanie Burt) Harvard/Belknap, 2011
• Who Was Jacques Derrida? Yale University Press, 2009
• A New Handbook of Literary Terms, Yale University Press, 2007
• The Romance of Individualism in Emerson and Nietzsche, Ohio University Press, 2003

References

1. "Dr. David Mikics". New College of Florida .
2. "David Mikics". Tablet Magazine. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
3. "David Mikics". University of Houston.
4. by. "David Mikics". Tablet Magazine. Retrieved 2025-10-03.
5. "Authors". Jewish Review of Books. Retrieved 2025-10-03.