John McGowan is Professor of Humanities at UNC Chapel Hill. His five books mix philosophical inquiry, political theory, and cultural criticism and span topics from Victorian literature to theories of postmodernism. His Postmodernism and its Critics (Cornell UP, 1991) considers the philosophical antecedents to contemporary theory, offering an account of the work of Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard, Rorty, Said, and Jameson. He has also co-edited two books, including the massive Norton Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism. Most recently, his work has centered on questions of what democracy can and should mean under contemporary cultural and political conditions. In addition to his scholarship, McGowan has won three teaching awards at UNC. He is also a founding and active member of UNC's Program in Cultural Studies and currently serves as the Director of UNC's Institute for the Arts and Humanities.
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