John T. Hamilton

John T. Hamilton (born March 1, 1963, Bronx, NY) is a literary scholar, musician, and William R. Kenan Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He previously held positions at the University of California-Santa Cruz (in Classics) and New York University (Comparative Literature and German). He has also taught as a visiting professor at the Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition at Bristol University. Numerous academic fellowships include the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and the Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin.

Teaching and Research topics include 18th- and 19th-century Literature, Classical Philology and Reception History, Music and Literature, Literary Theory and Political Metaphorology.

From 1985 to 1996 Hamilton was the guitarist and principal songwriter, together with Donna Croughn, for the band Tiny Lights, based in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Books

• Soliciting Darkness: Pindar, Obscurity, and the Classical Tradition (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004), ISBN 978-0674012578. According to WorldCat, the book is held in 257 libraries^[1] Translated into Chinese, by Lin Lou, as 幽暗的诱惑 : 品达、晦涩与古典传统 / You an de you huo : Pindar, hui se yu gu dian chuan tong ISBN 9787508057033
  • Review, by Helmut Muller-Sievers Modern philology. 103, no. 2, (2005): 215
  • Review, by Leofranc Holford-Strevens The London review of books. 27, no. 4, (2005): 33
  • Review, by Armand D'Angour, TLS, the Times literary supplement. no. 5313, (2005): 28
  • Review, by W Waters, Modern Language Quarterly 67, no. 2, (2006): 265-270
  • Review, by Penelope Wilson, Translation and Literature, v14 n1 (Spring, 2005): 90-94
  • Review, by Felix Budelmann, The Classical Review, v55 n2 (Oct., 2005): 406-407
  • Review, by Adolf Köhnken, International Journal of the Classical Tradition, v11 n4 (Spring, 2005): 602-606
• Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008), ISBN 978-0231142205 According to WorldCat, the book is held in 449 libraries.^[2] Translated into German as Musik, Wahnsinn und das Ausserkraftsetzen der Sprache (2011) ISBN 9783835308282
  • Review, by John Neubauer Comparative Literature Studies, 47, no. 2 (2010): 243-246
  • Review, by H Lindenberger Modern Language Quarterly, v71 n2 (20100504): 213-215
• Security: Politics, Humanity, and the Philology of Care (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013) ISBN 9780691157528
  • Review, by Hall Bjornstad, "L'Esprit créateur," v54 n3 (2014): 118
  • Review, by Ellwood Wiggins, "Modern Language Quarterly," v76 n3 (2015), 393-96

References

• Jared Lucky, "Schoolhouse Rock," The Harvard Crimson (May 4, 2012)
• Scott Schinder and Scott Frampton, "Tiny Lights," Trouser Press (www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=tiny_lights)

External links

• John Hamilton's Faculty Page, Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
• Sigmund H. Danziger, Jr. Memorial Lecture in the Humanities