Education
- B.A., English and American Literature, Brown University
- Ph.D., English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Biography
Vincent P. Pecora holds the Gordon B. Hinckley Presidential Endowed Chair in British Studies at the University of Utah. He has taught at the University of Arkansas (1984-85), the University of California, Los Angeles (1985-2005), and has directed summer seminars for the School of Criticism and Theory (2002) and the Social Science Research Council (2010 and 2014). He is the author of Self and Form in Modern Narrative (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989), Households of the Soul (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), Secularization and Cultural Criticism: Religion, Nation, and Modernity (University of Chicago Press, 2006), Secularization without End: Beckett, Mann, and Coetzee (University of Notre Dame Press, 2015), and he is the editor of Nations and Identities: Classic Readings (Blackwell Publishers, 2001), and a co-editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. His latest book is Land and Literature in a Cosmopolitan Age (Oxford University Press, 2020).