David Chinitz
David Chinitz co-edits new book, "Eliot Now"
David Chinitz, professor of English and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs in the College of Arts and Sciences at Loyola University Chicago, has co-edited a new book, Eliot Now, with Bloomsbury Publishing. He co-authored the book with Megan Quigley from Villanova University.
“David Chinitz has distinguished himself as a true teacher-scholar with a distinguished record of research and publication, teaching and mentoring students, and service to the university and the wider profession, and hence why we are so happy that as of this year he is the new Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs,” said Peter J. Schraeder, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. “His new book, Eliot Now, exemplifies his dedication to advancing literary studies and his status as a role model for faculty research excellence.”
Chinitz joined the CAS Dean’s Office as Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs after serving six years as the chair of the Department of English.
Eliot Now brings together essays on over a dozen newly published volumes of T.S. Eliot’s poetry, prose, and letters. The collection aims to show how one of the 20th century’s most celebrated and criticized writers can still shape our understanding of literature in the 21st century.
“Eliot is still extremely popular with readers, but today, as literary studies changes, his future in the academy seems very uncertain,” Chinitz reflected. “Part of what Megan and I were doing in Eliot Now was to explore the ways in which Eliot remains relevant to current scholarly interests.”
Chinitz’s research focuses on modernist poetry, often intersecting with cultural forms like jazz, journalism, and drama. Much of his scholarship delves into the work of T.S. Eliot, exploring the poet’s connections to popular culture.
Starting at Loyola University Chicago in 1993, Chinitz earned tenure in 1999 and became a full professor in 2008. Over the years, he served as Graduate Program Director in English and was president of Loyola’s AAUP and Phi Beta Kappa chapters. In 2007, he founded and continues to lead Global Attack, the English Department’s madrigals group.
Chinitz’s previous work, The Complete Prose of T.S. Eliot, vol. 6: The War Years 1940-1946 (Johns Hopkins 2017), earned him the MLA Prize for a Scholarly Edition in 2019.
In addition to other work on Eliot, Chinitz has also published a book on Langston Hughes, Which Sin to Bear? Authenticity and Compromise in Langston Hughes (Oxford University Press 2013) and co-edited a Companion to Modernist Poetry (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014).
Learn more about David Chinitz and Eliot Now.
About the College of Arts and Sciences
The College of Arts and Sciences is the oldest of Loyola University Chicago’s 15 schools, colleges, and institutes. More than 150 years since its founding, the College is home to 20 academic departments and 37 interdisciplinary programs and centers, more than 450 full-time faculty, and nearly 8,000 students. The 2,000+ classes that we offer each semester span an array of intellectual pursuits, ranging from the natural sciences and computational sciences to the humanities, the social sciences, and the fine and performing arts. Our students and faculty are engaged internationally at our campus in Rome, Italy, as well as at dozens of University-sponsored study abroad and research sites around the world. Home to the departments that anchor the University’s Core Curriculum, the College seeks to prepare all of Loyola’s students to think critically, to engage the world of the 21st century at ever deepening levels, and to become caring and compassionate individuals. Our faculty, staff, and students view service to others not just as one option among many, but as a constitutive dimension of their very being. In the truest sense of the Jesuit ideal, our graduates strive to be “individuals for others.”
David Chinitz, professor of English and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs in the College of Arts and Sciences at Loyola University Chicago, has co-edited a new book, Eliot Now, with Bloomsbury Publishing. He co-authored the book with Megan Quigley from Villanova University.
“David Chinitz has distinguished himself as a true teacher-scholar with a distinguished record of research and publication, teaching and mentoring students, and service to the university and the wider profession, and hence why we are so happy that as of this year he is the new Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs,” said Peter J. Schraeder, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. “His new book, Eliot Now, exemplifies his dedication to advancing literary studies and his status as a role model for faculty research excellence.”
Chinitz joined the CAS Dean’s Office as Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs after serving six years as the chair of the Department of English.
Eliot Now brings together essays on over a dozen newly published volumes of T.S. Eliot’s poetry, prose, and letters. The collection aims to show how one of the 20th century’s most celebrated and criticized writers can still shape our understanding of literature in the 21st century.
“Eliot is still extremely popular with readers, but today, as literary studies changes, his future in the academy seems very uncertain,” Chinitz reflected. “Part of what Megan and I were doing in Eliot Now was to explore the ways in which Eliot remains relevant to current scholarly interests.”
Chinitz’s research focuses on modernist poetry, often intersecting with cultural forms like jazz, journalism, and drama. Much of his scholarship delves into the work of T.S. Eliot, exploring the poet’s connections to popular culture.
Starting at Loyola University Chicago in 1993, Chinitz earned tenure in 1999 and became a full professor in 2008. Over the years, he served as Graduate Program Director in English and was president of Loyola’s AAUP and Phi Beta Kappa chapters. In 2007, he founded and continues to lead Global Attack, the English Department’s madrigals group.
Chinitz’s previous work, The Complete Prose of T.S. Eliot, vol. 6: The War Years 1940-1946 (Johns Hopkins 2017), earned him the MLA Prize for a Scholarly Edition in 2019.
In addition to other work on Eliot, Chinitz has also published a book on Langston Hughes, Which Sin to Bear? Authenticity and Compromise in Langston Hughes (Oxford University Press 2013) and co-edited a Companion to Modernist Poetry (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014).
Learn more about David Chinitz and Eliot Now.
About the College of Arts and Sciences
The College of Arts and Sciences is the oldest of Loyola University Chicago’s 15 schools, colleges, and institutes. More than 150 years since its founding, the College is home to 20 academic departments and 37 interdisciplinary programs and centers, more than 450 full-time faculty, and nearly 8,000 students. The 2,000+ classes that we offer each semester span an array of intellectual pursuits, ranging from the natural sciences and computational sciences to the humanities, the social sciences, and the fine and performing arts. Our students and faculty are engaged internationally at our campus in Rome, Italy, as well as at dozens of University-sponsored study abroad and research sites around the world. Home to the departments that anchor the University’s Core Curriculum, the College seeks to prepare all of Loyola’s students to think critically, to engage the world of the 21st century at ever deepening levels, and to become caring and compassionate individuals. Our faculty, staff, and students view service to others not just as one option among many, but as a constitutive dimension of their very being. In the truest sense of the Jesuit ideal, our graduates strive to be “individuals for others.”