About
Ed White is Professor of English and former Pierce Butler Chair at Tulane University's Department of English. His scholarly work focuses on early American literature, critical theory, and the development of US literary forms. He has authored several notable publications including The Traumatic Colonel: The Founding Fathers, Slavery, and the Phantasmatic Aaron Burr (NYU Press, 2014), The Backcountry and the City: Colonization and Conflict in Early America (University of Minnesota Press, 2005), and How to Read Barthes' Image-Music-Text (Pluto, 2012).
Professor White has edited Hugh Henry Brackenridge's Modern Chivalry (Hackett Press, 2009) and co-edited Beyond Douglass: New Perspectives on Early African-American Literature (Bucknell UP, 2008). His research interests include 17th-19th century US writing, democratization of poetic forms, antebellum abolitionist literature, and early US literary conservatism. He teaches courses on critical theory and historical US literature.
