Lee Clark Mitchell

Lee Clark Mitchell
Born	1947 (age 76–77)
Occupation(s)	Author, professor
Spouse	Carolyn Abbate (div.)
Children	2
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Washington (Ph.D.)
Academic work
Institutions	Princeton University

Lee Clark Mitchell (born 1947) is an American author and professor American studies and literature. He is the Holmes Professor of Belles-Lettres at Princeton University and the former chair of the English Department and director of the program in American studies.

Early life and education

Mitchell was born in 1947. He completed his Ph.D. at University of Washington.

Suspension

In 2004 Princeton University suspended Mitchell from his faculty position for a year after an investigation determined that he had misspent approximately $20,000 in research funds over an 8–9-year period.

Personal life

Mitchell was married to musicologist Carolyn Abbate with whom he has two sons. In April 2019, he announced his engagement to Cameron Platt after 7 months of dating. They met in the Fall of 2013 when Mitchell was a professor and later a mentor of Platt. They began a personal relationship in 2018 after Platt completed a master's degree at University of Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship.

Selected works

Books

• Mitchell, Lee Clark; Elliot, Emory (1986). New Essays on The Red Badge of Courage. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521315128.
• Mitchell, Lee Clark (1989). Determined Fictions: American Literary Naturalism. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231068987.
• Bush, Alfred L.; Mitchell, Lee Clark (1994). The Photograph and the American Indian. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691034898.
• Mitchell, Lee Clark (1998). Westerns: Making the Man in Fiction and Film. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226532356.
• Mitchell, Lee Clark (2014). Witnesses to a Vanishing America: The Nineteenth-Century Response. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9781400856152.
• Mitchell, Lee Clark (2017). Mere Reading: The Poetics of Wonder in Modern American Novels. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 9781501329678.
• Mitchell, Lee Clark (2018). Late Westerns: The Persistence of a Genre. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 9781496201966.
• Mitchell, Lee Clark (2019). More Time: Contemporary Short Stories and Late Style. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780192575791.

External links

• Lee Clark Mitchell at IMDb