Research Bio
Author of Apropos of Something: A History of Irrelevance and Relevance (University of Chicago Press, 2022) and Anglophilia: Deference, Devotion, and Antebellum America (University of Chicago Press, 2008).
Research Expertise and Interest
American literature to 1900, American painting and visual arts, literature and philosophy, nineteenth century intellectual history
Featured in the Media
English professor Elisa Tamarkin's new book "Done in a Day: Telex from the Fall of Saigon" is called "unusual and imaginative." The book uses Tamarkin's stepfather's experience as the last correspondent evacuated from Saigon to explore the end of the war and the death of daily journalism.
Teaching
Special Study [ENGLISH 299]
Special Study [ENGLISH 299]
American Literature: 1865-1900 [ENGLISH 130C]
Graduate Readings [ENGLISH 203]
Special Study [ENGLISH 299]