1. Michael David Warner was born on 1958 and is an American literary critic, social theorist, and Seymour H Knox Professor of English Literature and American Studies at Yale University.
12 Facts About Michael Warner
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Michael Warner writes for Artforum, The Nation, The Advocate, and The Village Voice.
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Michael Warner edited The Portable Walt Whitman and American Sermons: The Pilgrims to Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Michael Warner received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in English from Johns Hopkins University in 1986.
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Michael Warner is highly influential in the fields of early American literature, social theory, and queer theory.
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Michael Warner later became a public figure in the gay community for his book The Trouble with Normal, in which Warner contended that queer theory and the ethics of a queer life serve as critiques of existing social and economic structures, not just as critique of heterosexuality and heterosexual society.
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Michael Warner then edited a book on the history of secularism in early America, from the early eighteenth century to the Civil War, culminating with the work of Walt Whitman, a writer on whom many of his interests converge.
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Michael Warner has been a permanent fellow of Rutgers University's Center for Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture since 2001, and was a director from 2006 to 2008.
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Michael Warner sits on a number of Advisory Boards, including that of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University, and the Library of America Colonial Writing Project.
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Michael Warner is, along with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Teresa de Lauretis, Lauren Berlant, and Judith Butler, considered one of the founders of queer theory.
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Michael Warner argues that the right to marry is an inadequate and ultimately undesirable goal for gay rights activism.
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Michael Warner calls the two books "mutually illustrative", with The Trouble With Normal critiquing the way gay rights movements have obscured queer counterpublics, one of the central concepts of Public and Counterpublics.