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Robert N. Watson

Robert N. Watson is distinguished professor of English at UCLA, where he has served as chair of the Faculty of Letters and Science and vice provost for educational innovation. He is the author of Cultural Evolution and Its Discontents: Cognitive Overload, Parasitic Cultures, and the Humanistic Cure (2018), as well as books about Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Japanese cinema, the history of the fear of death, and the roots of modern environmentalism in Renaissance literature and painting. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker and many other journals.

Is Multiculturalism an Oxymoron? On Martin Puchner’s “Culture”

Robert N. Watson considers the promises and perils of cultural amalgamation in his review of Martin Puchner’s “Culture: The Story of Us, from Cave Art to K-pop.”...

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Hiding from Pandemics, and from Ourselves: The Case of Ben Jonson

My UCLA seminar on “Poetry and Society in England, from the Spanish Armada to the Glorious Revolution” began, via Zoom, a few weeks ago. Last year I planned the syllabus with an opening session about death, focusing on what epitaphs and ...

Hiding from Pandemics, and from Ourselves: The Case of Ben Jonson

My UCLA seminar on “Poetry and Society in England, from the Spanish Armada to the Glorious Revolution” began, via Zoom, a few weeks ago. Last year I planned the syllabus with an opening session about death, focusing on what epitaphs and ...

ROBERT N. WATSON

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