
Sean Latham
Pauline McFarlin Walter Professor of English and Comparative Literature
University of Tulsa
ABOUT ME
Born and raised in Colorado, I'm a first-generation college student who values the fundamental importance of the liberal arts and the strong foundation they provide for building successful lives, careers, and communities. As director of the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, I develop community-engaged scholarship that focuses on complex challenges like immigration, identity politics, food insecurity and data privacy. My interdisciplinary scholarship explores how we create, circulate, and value modern modern literature, music, and art. I'm currently at work on a book titled Bob Dylan's Odyssey.

EDUCATION
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Modern Literature and Culture
Editor, James Joyce Quarterly, Co-Editor, New Modernist Studies (Bloomsbury)
1990 - 1994
Swarthmore College
High Honors in English and Religion
Phi Beta Kappa
Public Humanities
Founding Director of Oklahoma Center for the Humanites
Bob Dylan and American Music
Founding Director, TU Institute for Bob Dylan Studies
Digital Humanities and Periodical Studies
Founder, Modernist Journals Project and Journal of Modern Periodical Studies
1994-2000
Brown University
PhD in English
AWARDS
University Outstanding Researcher Award
TURC Mentoring Award
University Outstanding Teacher Award
National Endowment for the Humanities
Segal Distinguished Visiting Professor (Northwestern)
Prof. of Humanities, Univ. of Southern Denmark