Keith Clavin (clavin@mit.edu)

Keith Clavin (Ph.D., Auburn University) is Lecturer in the Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication (WRAP) program. His teaching focuses on the rhetorical aspects of technical and professional communication as well as the cultural distinctions between discourse communities. Before coming to MIT he taught writing and literature at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and Roger Williams University. His primary research agendas correlate literary representations with economic thinking. He has written on the works of Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, and several nineteenth-century economists. He maintains secondary interests in narrative theory and contemporary aesthetics and has published on these topics in Textual Practice and Oxford Literary Review. His current project explores the cultural and financial stakes of translation within imperial contexts.