Lee Clark Mitchell | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1947 (age 76–77) |
| Occupation(s) | Author, professor |
| Spouse | Carolyn Abbate (div.) |
| Children | 2 |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Washington (Ph.D.) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Princeton University |
Lee Clark Mitchell (born 1947) is an American author and professor American studies and literature. He is the Holmes Professor of Belles-Lettres at Princeton University and the former chair of the English Department and director of the program in American studies.[1] In 2004, he was suspended as a faculty member and resigned from his position as master of Butler College at Princeton, after he was found to have "inappropriately spent" approximately $20,000 from the English department.[2]
Early life and education
Mitchell was born in 1947.[3] He completed his Ph.D. at University of Washington.[1]
Personal life
Mitchell was married to musicologist Carolyn Abbate with whom he has two sons.[4][5] In April 2019, he announced his engagement to Cameron Platt after 7 months of dating. They met in the Fall of 2013 when Mitchell was a professor and later a mentor of Platt. They began a personal relationship in 2018 after Platt completed a master's degree at University of Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship.[6][7]
Selected works
Books
- Mitchell, Lee Clark; Elliot, Emory (1986). New Essays on The Red Badge of Courage. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521315128.
- Mitchell, Lee Clark (1989). Determined Fictions: American Literary Naturalism. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231068987.
- Bush, Alfred L.; Mitchell, Lee Clark (1994). The Photograph and the American Indian. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691034898.
- Mitchell, Lee Clark (1998). Westerns: Making the Man in Fiction and Film. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226532356.
- Mitchell, Lee Clark (2014). Witnesses to a Vanishing America: The Nineteenth-Century Response. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9781400856152.
- Mitchell, Lee Clark (2017). Mere Reading: The Poetics of Wonder in Modern American Novels. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 9781501329678.
- Mitchell, Lee Clark (2018). Late Westerns: The Persistence of a Genre. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 9781496201966.
- Mitchell, Lee Clark (2019). More Time: Contemporary Short Stories and Late Style. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780192575791.
References
- 1 2 "Lee Clark Mitchell | Department of English". english.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
- ↑ Mitchell suspended, resigns as Butler College master
- ↑ "Virtual International Authority File".
- ↑ Nguyen, Jimmy (April 24, 2019). "25-year-old Alumni Falls In Love and Gets Engaged to 71-year-old Professor". Channel 933. iHeartRadio. Retrieved 2019-05-03.
- ↑ "Obituary: Russell V. Abbate" (PDF). Amherst Citizen. 2009-07-28. Retrieved 2019-07-20.
- ↑ Flaherty, Colleen (2019-05-22). "Institutions generally don't have provisions against professors dating students they just taught". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved 2019-07-20.
- ↑ Clark, Lauren (April 28, 2019). "University graduate, 25, reveals she is to marry former professor, 71, after seven months of dating". Yahoo Style UK. Retrieved 2019-04-28.