Lee Clark Mitchell

Lee Clark Mitchell (born 1947) is an American author and professor American studies and literature. He is the Holmes Professor of Belles-Lettres at Princeton University and the former chair of the English Department and director of the program in American studies.[1] In 2004, he was suspended as a faculty member and resigned from his position as master of Butler College at Princeton, after he was found to have "inappropriately spent" approximately $20,000 from the English department.[2]

Lee Clark Mitchell
Born1947 (age 75–76)
Occupation(s)Author, professor
SpouseCarolyn Abbate (div.)
Children2
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Washington (Ph.D.)
Academic work
InstitutionsPrinceton University

Early life and education

Mitchell was born in 1947.[3] He completed his Ph.D. at University of Washington.[1]

Personal life

Mitchell was married to musicologist Carolyn Abbate with whom he has two sons.[4][5] In April 2019, he announced his engagement to Cameron Platt after 7 months of dating. They met in the Fall of 2013 when Mitchell was a professor and later a mentor of Platt. They began a personal relationship in 2018 after Platt completed a master's degree at University of Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship.[6][7]

Selected works

Books
  • Mitchell, Lee Clark; Elliot, Emory (1986). New Essays on The Red Badge of Courage. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521315128.
  • Mitchell, Lee Clark (1989). Determined Fictions: American Literary Naturalism. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231068987.
  • Bush, Alfred L.; Mitchell, Lee Clark (1994). The Photograph and the American Indian. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691034898.
  • Mitchell, Lee Clark (1998). Westerns: Making the Man in Fiction and Film. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226532356.
  • Mitchell, Lee Clark (2014). Witnesses to a Vanishing America: The Nineteenth-Century Response. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9781400856152.
  • Mitchell, Lee Clark (2017). Mere Reading: The Poetics of Wonder in Modern American Novels. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 9781501329678.
  • Mitchell, Lee Clark (2018). Late Westerns: The Persistence of a Genre. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 9781496201966.
  • Mitchell, Lee Clark (2019). More Time: Contemporary Short Stories and Late Style. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780192575791.

References
  1. "Lee Clark Mitchell | Department of English". english.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
  2. Mitchell suspended, resigns as Butler College master
  3. "Virtual International Authority File".
  4. Nguyen, Jimmy (April 24, 2019). "25-year-old Alumni Falls In Love and Gets Engaged to 71-year-old Professor". Channel 933. iHeartRadio. Retrieved 2019-05-03.
  5. "Obituary: Russell V. Abbate" (PDF). Amherst Citizen. 2009-07-28. Retrieved 2019-07-20.
  6. Flaherty, Colleen (2019-05-22). "Institutions generally don't have provisions against professors dating students they just taught". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved 2019-07-20.
  7. Clark, Lauren (April 28, 2019). "University graduate, 25, reveals she is to marry former professor, 71, after seven months of dating". Yahoo Style UK. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
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