Michael LeMahieu

Michael LeMahieu is an Associate Dean for Undergraduate and Graduate Studies at Clemson University's College of Arts and Humanities. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a B.A. in English and Spanish from Marquette University.

• Education: Ph.D. and M.A. in English (University of Wisconsin-Madison), B.A. in English and Spanish (Marquette University)

His research spans Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century American, African-American, and Anglophone Literature; Modernism and Postmodernism; History of Ideas; Critical Theory; and Anglo-American Philosophy of Language. He co-edited Wittgenstein and Modernism (2017) and is currently writing a book on Civil War memory in American literature from the civil rights movement to contemporary times.

LeMahieu's scholarly work examines intersections between philosophy and literature, particularly Wittgenstein's influence on modernist and postmodernist texts, while analyzing cultural memory in American literature. His publications include studies on DeLillo, Joyce, and post-Civil War narratives.

He serves as coeditor of the journal Contemporary Literature and teaches courses on 20th/21st Century American Literature and Civil War Memory.