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Douglas Mao received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1993 and taught in the English departments at Princeton, Harvard, and Cornell before coming to Johns Hopkins in 2007. A specialist in modernist fiction and poetry of Britain, Ireland, and the United States, he is the author of Solid Objects: Modernism and the Test of Production (Princeton, 1998) and Fateful Beauty: Aesthetic Environments, Juvenile Development, and Literature 1860-1960 (forthcoming from Princeton, 2008).  He is also the co-editor, with Rebecca Walkowitz, of Bad Modernisms (Duke, 2006). He has been president of the Modernist Studies Association, has held a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and has served on the faculty board of Cornell University Press; he is also a member of the editorial board of Textual Practice. His courses have treated a range of topics in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature, from gender in modern writing to the aftermath of literary naturalism, from E. M. Forster to authority in modern poetry. This term he offers courses on the Bloomsbury Group (undergraduate) and modernist utopias (graduate).

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