Thomas Augst Biography

Courses in American literature and culture are taught by Thomas Augst. His writing focuses on nineteenth-century literary history and the interpretation of various media and forms of literacy in connection to issues with the nature of ethical behavior, the structure of knowledge, and the cultural politics of contemporary liberalism. He co-edited Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States (UMass 2007), The Clerk's Tale: Young Men and Moral Life in Nineteenth-Century America (Chicago 2003), and Cultural Agencies and American Libraries (2001). He got research funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation after receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Research and Interest Areas American literature and culture, the material and cultural history of literacy, literary conventions of daily life, and American liberalism's ethical and civic values. Outside Connections editorial council studies of America Fellowships/Honors Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities; Finalist for the Modern Language Association's First Book Prize; Honorable Mention The American Studies Association's Ralph Gabriel Dissertation Prize; Harvard University's Helen Choate Bell Dissertation Prize in American Literature; Charlotte Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship; and Jacob K. Javits Fellowship. Publications Young Men and Moral Life in Nineteenth-Century America: The Clerk's Tale. 2003, University of Chicago Press, Chicago. The Social Life of Libraries in the United States, Institutions of Reading (co-editor). University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, 2007. Libraries as Cultural Agencies (co-editor). University of Wisconsin Press, 2002, Madison The romance of experience and temperance in mass culture A Literary History of America 19:2 (Spring 2007). "Faith in Reading: Liberalism and Civil Religion in Public Libraries" Institutions of Reading: The American Library System's Social Life. "Discovering Barnum on the Web" The Usual 5:6 (October 2005). Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies 27 The Commerce of Thought: Professional Authority and Business Ethics in Nineteenth-Century America (2002). The Price of Character ISSUE 6 (Fall 2001). When Frederick Douglass spoke and wrote Antczak Coggins and Klinger are the editors of Professing Rhetoric: Selected Papers from the 2000 Rhetoric Society of America Conference. 2002. Lawrence Erlbaum, Mahwah, New Jersey.

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