History

D. L. LeMahieu and Christopher Cowley, eds.  Philosophy and Life Writing.  London: Routledge, 2019.

D. L. LeMahieu.  A Culture for Democracy: Mass Communication and the Cultivated Mind in Britain Between the Wars. Oxford: Oxford University Press (Clarendon Imprint), 1988. 414 pages.  

D. L. LeMahieu.  The Mind of William Paley: A Philosopher and His Age. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1976. 226 pages.

"Theodor Adorno and Life Writing in the Anthropocene."  Life Writing. 20, 3 (2023): 545-561.

"Eric Sevareid and the Emotional Registers of Liberal Masculinity."  Gender & History. 35, 1 (March, 2023): 287-304.

“British Academic Life Writing and Meritocratic Virtue.” a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, 36, 2 (2021): 267-290.

“Life Writing and Philosophy: Bryan Magee and the Subjectivities of the Examined Life.”  Life Writing, 15, 3 (2018): 399-411; and in D. L. LeMahieu and Christopher Cowley, eds. Philosophy and Life Writing.  London: Routledge, 2019.  Pp. 95-107.

“‘The History Man’ on Television: Ideology and Mediated Embodiment.”  Adaptation, 10, 1 (2017): 127-140.

“Exchange Value: British ‘Scholarship Boys’ in Mid-Twentieth Century America.” Journal of American Studies, 51, 1 (2017): 183-204.

“Kermode’s War.” Literature & History.  25, 1 (2016): 76-94.

“An Awkward Quarrel: The Defense of Humanism in 1970s Britain.” Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism, 23, 1 (2015): 1-23.

“‘Scholarship Boys’ in Twilight: The Memoirs of Six Humanists in Post-Industrial Britain.” Journal of British Studies, 53:4 (2014): 1011-31.

“Lost Fathers: Raymond Williams and the Signal Box at Pandy.”  Life Writing. 11, 1 (2014): 69-83.

“Digital Memory, Moving Images, and the Absorption of Historical Experience.”  Film & History.  41,1 (2011): 82-106.

“The Ethopoetic Moment.”  Scope: An Online Journal of Film & TV Studies.  13 (February, 2009). 

“Preface” William Paley, Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy (1785). (Indianapolis: Liberty Press, 2002): xi - xxvii.

“Honest to God and the Discourse on Patriarchy in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain.”  Christianity and Literature . 51, 1 (2001): 43-63.

“America and the Representation of British History in Film and Television” in Roland Quinault and Fred Leventhal, eds., Anglo-American Attitudes: From Revolution to Partnership.  Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000. Pp. 261-78.

“Entrepreneur of Collectivism: Reith of the BBC” in Susan Pedersen and Peter Mandler, eds. After the Victorians: Private Conscience and Public Duty, 1880-1950.  London: Routledge, 1994. Pp. 188-206.

“Imagined Contemporaries: Cinematic and Televised Dramas about the Edwardians in Great Britain and the United States, 1967-1985.”  Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television . 10, 3 (1990): 243-56.

“The Gramophone: Recorded Music and the Cultivated Mind in Britain Between the Wars.”  Technology and Culture. 23, 3 (1982): 372-91.

“Malthus and the Theology of Scarcity.” Journal of the History of Ideas. 40, 3 (1979): 467-74.

Review Articles and Short Pieces (Selected)

“Introduction: Philosophy and Life Writing (Special Issue co-edited by Christopher Cowley).” Life Writing, 15, 3 (2018): 301-303; and in D. L. LeMahieu and Christopher Cowley, eds. Philosophy and Life Writing.  London: Routledge, 2019. Pp. 1-3.

“Being-Here: Heidegger in the 21st Century.” New Media & Society.  17, 3 (2015): 470-475.

“Modular Narratives.” Film & History.  43, 1 (Spring, 2013): 30-34.

“Culture for Mass Audiences” in Mary Kupiec Cayton and Peter W. Williams, eds. Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History. Volume 3.  New York: Charles Scribners’s Sons, 2001. Pp. 259-266.

“The BBC and its Competitors.” Journal of British Studies.  37, 2 (1998):  222-27.

“The Ambiguity of Popularization” in C. Kenneth Waters and Albert Van Helden, eds. Julian Huxley: Biologist and Statesman of Science. Houston: Rice University Press, 1992.  Pp. 252-56.

“The History of British and American Sport: A Review Essay.” Comparative Studies in Society and History: An International Quarterly. 32, 4 (1990): 838-45.

“The Origins of the Advertising Business”. Reviews in American History. 11, 4 (1983): 571-75. 

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Harvard University, 1992-93.

University of Michigan, 1984-85.

University of Nebraska, 1973-74.

Director, Graduate Program in Liberal Studies, 2003-2023.

Chair, Department of History, 1989-1992, 1995-1996, 2019-2022.

Chair, Department of Communication, 1996-2003, 2005-2009.

President, Theta Chapter, Phi Beta Kappa, 1976-77, 1989-90, 2005-06, 2014-15.

Principal Author: College Mission Statement 1992.

Trustee Award for Teaching Excellence, 2006.

Bird Award for Intellectual Contributions, 2002.

Hotchkiss Presidential Professor, 1995-2023.

North American Conference on British Studies Book Award, 1989.

Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship, 1978-79.

Harvard Graduate Prize Fellowship, 1967-72.

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship, 1967-68.

Frederick Lewis Prize to Class Valedictorian, 1967.

Phi Beta Kappa, 1966.

Wisconsin State Debate Champion, 1962.