Michael Hoffman

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania 1963
M.A., 1960
B.A., cum laude 1959

Professor Hoffman joined the UC Davis faculty as Assistant Professor in 1967, advanced to Associate Professor in 1971, and Professor in 1975. Before joining the UCD English faculty, he taught at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland (1962-64), and at the University of Pennsylvania as an Assistant Professor (1964-67). He has also held visiting appointments at L'Universite de Paris IV (Sorbonne), at the American College in Paris, and at the UC Washington Center. His fields of interest include nineteenth-century American literature, twentieth-century American and British literature, creative writing, literary theory, French literature, and literature and films about the Holocaust. In addition to his own pursuits in fiction and literary scholarship, Professor Hoffman has devoted considerable energy to improvements in higher education, including administrative appointments as well as publishing several articles to this purpose. Professor Hoffman has served on a large number of advisory committees at all levels of academic administration, including university-wide and intersegmental advisory boards on higher education. He has served the campus as Assistant Vice Chancellor - Academic Affairs, Director of the Humanities Institute, Chair of the English Department, and Graduate Adviser of the English Department.

Publications

• The Development of Abstractionism in the Writings of Gertrude Stein (1965)
• The Subversive Vision: American romanticism in Literature (1973)
• Gertrude Stein (1976)
• The Buddy System (1971)
• Critical Essays on Gertrude Stein, ed. Michael Hoffman (1986)
• Critical Essays on American Modernism, ed. Michael Hoffman (1992)
• Essentials of the Theory of Fiction, ed. Michael Hoffman (1988 & 1996)