Daniel S. Malachuk

Based at the Quad Cities campus of WIU, Daniel S. Malachuk teaches a variety of courses in support of the Bachelor and Master of Liberal Arts & Sciences, the English minor, the English MA, and General Education.  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 research is in nineteenth-century literature and political theory.

Books

• A Political Companion to Emerson, co-edited with Alan M. Levine (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, forthcoming)
• Perfection, the State, and Victorian Liberalism (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)

Articles

• "Romola and Victorian Liberalism," Victorian Literature and Culture 36.1 (Fall 2008) 83-99
• "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
• "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

Chapters

• "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)
• "'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
• "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
• "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

Reviews

• Pecora, Secularization and Cultural Criticism, Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net 51 (RaVoN, 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)

Forthcoming essays include examinations of Henry David Thoreau's "higher use" environmentalism, Matthew Arnold's critique of American democracy, and lingering transcendentalism in novels by American realists.  A book on higher law and the political theory of American Transcendentalism is also in progress.