Western Illinois University: Macomb Campus

Daniel S. Malachuk teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in English at WIU-QC.  He received his BA from Bowdoin College (1989) and his PhD from Rutgers University (1996). Prior to coming to WIU-QC in 2007, he taught writing and humanities at Daniel Webster College (1997-2005), political theory at Georgetown and George Washington Universities (2006), and literature at American University (2006-07).  His main research area is nineteenth-century British and American literature in relation to political theory and the environment.

Books

• A Political Companion to Emerson, co-edited with Alan M. Levine (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2011) - highly recommended by Choice
  

• Perfection, the State, and Victorian Liberalism (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)

Chapters & Articles

• "Democracy," in W. Mott, ed., Emerson in Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)
• "Disinterestedness and the Liberal Subject," in L. Behlman and A. Longmuir, eds., Victorian Debates (New York: Routledge, forthcoming)
• "George Eliot's Liberalism," in A. Anderson and H. Shaw, eds., The Blackwell Companion to George Eliot (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, forthcoming)
• "Introduction: The New History of Emerson's Politics and His Philosophy of Self-Reliance," co-written with Alan M. Levine, in Levine and Malachuk, eds., A Political Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011) 1-39
  
• "Emerson's Politics, Retranscendentalized," in Levine and Malachuk, eds., A Political Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011) 265-304
  
• "Matthew Arnold and American Democracy," Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations 14.2 (October 2010) 179-193
• "American Realism's Transcendental Other," in G. Baker and E. Aldea, eds., Realism's Others (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010), 69-90
• "William James at Chocorua: A Northern Forest Philosopher," in P. Cenkl, ed., Nature and Culture in the Northern Forest: Region, Heritage, and Environment in the Rural Northeast (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2010) 171-186
• "Human Rights and a Post-Secular Religion of Humanity," Journal of Human Rights 9.2 (June 2010) 127-142
• "Thoreau and the Higher Uses of Nature," in J. Guignard and T. Murphy, eds., Literature, Writing, and the Natural World (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009) 14-32
• "'A Still More Perfect and Glorious State': Thoreau's Maine," in M. Burke, ed., Maine's Place in the Environmental Imagination (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008) 43-67
• "Romola and Victorian Liberalism," Victorian Literature and Culture 36.1 (Fall 2008) 83-99
• "Nationalist Cosmopolitics in the Nineteenth Century," in D. Morgan and G. Banham, eds., Cosmopolitics and the Emergence of a Future (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) 139-162
• "Cultural Studies, Compassion, and the Promise of Community-Based Learning," in S. Danielson and A. Fallon, eds., Community-Based Learning and the Work of Literature (Bolton: Anker Press, 2007) 26-45
• "Transcendentalism, Perfectionism, and Walden," The Concord Saunterer New Series, 12/1 (2004/2005) 283-303
• "Labor, Leisure, and the Yeoman in Coleridge's and Wordsworth's 1790s Writings," Romanticism on the Net (August 2002)
• "Coleridge's Republicanism and the Aphorism in Aids to Reflection," Studies in Romanticism 39.2 (Winter 2000) 397-417
• "Loyal to a Dream Country: Republicanism and the Pragmatism of William James and Richard Rorty," Journal of American Studies 34.1 (April 2000) 89-113
• "John Stuart Mill's Platform Populism, the Republican Tradition, and Victorian Liberalism" in M. Hewett, ed., Platform-Pulpit-Rhetoric (Leeds: Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies, 2000) 110-121
• "Walt Whitman and the Culture of Pragmatism," Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, 17: 1/2 (November 1999) 60-68 
• "The Republican Philosophy of Emerson's Early Lectures," The New England Quarterly 71:3 (September 1998) 404-428

Reviews

• Habich, Building Their Own Waldos (Emerson Society Papers (2012) 8)
  
• Hadley, Living Liberalism (Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 33.4 (2011) 409-11)
• Pecora, Secularization and Cultural Criticism (RaVoN 51 (August 2008)) 
• Price, To Walt Whitman, America (H-Net, January 2006)
• Atkins, Jazz Planet (Journal of Popular Music Studies, 16.3 (November 2004) 302-06)