Advisory Board

Donald Pease

Donald Pease, professor of English, Avalon Foundation Chair of the Humanities, Chair of the Dartmouth Liberal Studies Program and winner of the 1981 Distinguished Teaching Award at Dartmouth, is an authority on nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature and literary theory. In the summer of 1986 he brought the School of Criticism and Theory to Dartmouth.  In 1996 he founded the Dartmouth Institute in American Studies and in 1997 he has also served as Academic Director of the Alumni College program. A recipient of a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, he is the author of Visionary Compacts: American Renaissance Writings in Cultural Context(which won the Mark Ingraham Prize for the best new book in the Humanities in 1987) and of over seventy articles on figures in American and British literature and The Culture of United States Imperialism.  He is the co-editor of American Renaissance Rediscovered and the editor of seven other volumes including The Futures of American Studies. Professor Pease is general editor of a series of books by Duke University Press called “The New Americanists.” He has been awarded Guggenheim, Mellon and Hewlett fellowships and has twice received an NEH Directorship to teach college teachers about nineteenth-century American Literature.  Professor Pease received the Faculty Award for Service to Alumni Continuing Education in 1999, awarded by Dartmouth’s Alumni Council. In 2000, he was the Drue Heinz Visiting Professor at Oxford University.