John Hamilton (musician, scholar)

John Hamilton (born March 1, 1963 in The Bronx, New York) is an American literary scholar, musician, and Professor of Comparative Literature and German at Harvard University. His former teaching positions include the University of California-Santa Cruz (in Classics) and New York University (Comparative Literature and German). He has also taught as a visiting professor at the Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition at Bristol University. Numerous academic fellowships include the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and the Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin.

Teaching and Research topics include 18th- and 19th-century Literature, Classical Philology and Reception History, Music and Literature, Literary Theory and Political Metaphorology.

From 1985 to 1996 he was the guitarist and principal songwriter, together with Donna Croughn, for the band Tiny Lights, who were based in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Selected publications

• Soliciting Darkness: Pindar, Obscurity, and the Classical Tradition (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2004)
• Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language (New York: Columbia UP, 2008)
• Security: Politics, Humanity, and the Philology of Care (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2013)

Bibliography

• J. Hamilton, Soliciting Darkness: Pindar, Obscurity, and the Classical Tradition (Cambridge, MA, 2004): ISBN 978-0674012578
• J. Hamilton, Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language (New York, 2008): ISBN 978-0231142205
• J. Hamilton, "Security: Politics, Humanity, and the Philology of Care" (Princeton, 2013): ISBN 978-0691157528
• John Hamilton Faculty Page, Harvard University^[1]
• Jared Lucky, "Schoolhouse Rock," The Harvard Crimson (May 4, 2012)^[2]
• Scott Schinder and Scott Frampton, Tiny Lights, Trouser Press^[3]

References