Kevin McLaughlin was Dean of Faculty at Brown University from 2011–22. He is George Hazard Crooker University Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and German Studies at Br...view moreKevin McLaughlin was Dean of Faculty at Brown University from 2011–22. He is George Hazard Crooker University Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and German Studies at Brown. He is the author of Poetic Force: Poetry after Kant (Stanford University Press, 2014), Paperwork: Literature and Mass Mediacy in the Age of Paper (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005), and Writing in Parts: Imitation and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Literature (Stanford University Press, 1995), and the co- translator with Howard Eiland of Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project (Harvard University Press, 1999).view less