John Whittier-Ferguson

John Whittier-Ferguson is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Michigan, where he has taught since 1990. He attended Kenyon College (graduating in 1977), and did his graduate work at Princeton University (1985-1990). In the years between 1977 and 1985, he played music professionally, waited tables, did a good deal of bike touring and bike racing, lived in a couple of fairly primitive (and wonderful) houses in the North Carolina piedmont, spent lots of time outdoors and also taught English at two different Quaker High Schools (three years at Baltimore Friends School; two at Carolina Friends School). His research interests center around literary modernism: works written from the end of the 19th century up through the Second World War, with particular focus on the poetry of T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and the prose of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf.