U.C. Davis History Department - Faculty

Michael Saler
Professor

E: mtsaler@ucdavis.edu
T: 530-752-1637
O: 3203 SSH

Research Interests

Modern European intellectual and cultural history, modern British History. Geographies of the Imagination: The Literary Prehistory of Virtual Reality (under contract, Oxford University Press.) A history of imaginary worlds from the late nineteenth century to the present, from Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes to the virtual worlds of computer games.

Selected Publications

The Re-Enchantment of the World: Secular Magic in a Rational Age (Stanford, 2009)

Protestant Spies: The Career of John le Carre

The Rise of Fan Fiction and Comic Book Culture - From book-burning and prohibition to Pulitzer Prizes and prestige

Is There Such a Thing as a British Intellectual?

"Modernity and Enchantment: A Historiographic Review," The American Historical Review 111:3 (June, 2006).

"Modernity, Irony, and Enchantment." Philosophy and Literature, 28:1, (April 2004).

The Avant-Garde in Interwar England: Medieval Modernism and the London Underground (Oxford University Press, 1999)

The Many Deaths of Roberto Bolano

Current Graduate Advisees

Louisa Michaels, Elizabeth (Libi) Sundermann