Lee Clark Mitchell Explained

Alma Mater:	University of Washington (Ph.D.)
Workplaces:	Princeton University
Occupation:	Author, professor
Spouse:	Carolyn Abbate (div.)
Children:	2

Lee Clark Mitchell (born 1947) is an American author and professor American studies and literature. He is the Holmes Professor of Belles-Lettres at Princeton University and the former chair of the English Department and director of the program in American studies.^[1]

Early life and education

Mitchell was born in 1947.^[2] He completed his Ph.D. at University of Washington.

Personal life

Mitchell was married to musicologist Carolyn Abbate with whom he has two sons.^{[3] [4]} In April 2019, he announced his engagement to Cameron Platt after 7 months of dating. They met in the Fall of 2013 when Mitchell was a professor and later a mentor of Platt. They began a personal relationship in 2018 after Platt completed a master's degree at University of Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship.^{[5] [6]}

Selected works

Books

• Book: Mitchell, Lee Clark. New Essays on The Red Badge of Courage. Elliot. Emory. 1986. Cambridge University Press. 9780521315128. en. Emory Elliott. registration.
• Book: Mitchell, Lee Clark. Determined Fictions: American Literary Naturalism. 1989. Columbia University Press. 9780231068987. en. registration.
• Book: Bush, Alfred L.. The Photograph and the American Indian. Mitchell. Lee Clark. 1994. Princeton University Press. 9780691034898. en. Alfred L. Bush.
• Book: Mitchell, Lee Clark. Westerns: Making the Man in Fiction and Film. 1998. University of Chicago Press. 9780226532356. en.
• Book: Mitchell, Lee Clark. Witnesses to a Vanishing America: The Nineteenth-Century Response. 2014. Princeton University Press. 9781400856152. en.
• Book: Mitchell, Lee Clark. Mere Reading: The Poetics of Wonder in Modern American Novels. 2017. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. 9781501329678. en.
• Book: Mitchell, Lee Clark. Late Westerns: The Persistence of a Genre. 2018. U of Nebraska Press. 9781496201966. en.
• Book: Mitchell, Lee Clark. More Time: Contemporary Short Stories and Late Style. 2019. Oxford University Press. 9780192575791. en.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Lee Clark Mitchell Department of English. english.princeton.edu. 2019-04-28.
2. Web site: Virtual International Authority File.
3. Web site: 25-year-old Alumni Falls In Love and Gets Engaged to 71-year-old Professor. Nguyen. Jimmy. April 24, 2019. Channel 933. iHeartRadio. 2019-05-03.
4. News: Obituary: Russell V. Abbate. 2009-07-28. Amherst Citizen. 2019-07-20.
5. Web site: Institutions generally don't have provisions against professors dating students they just taught. Flaherty. Colleen. 2019-05-22. Inside Higher Ed. en. 2019-07-20.
6. Web site: University graduate, 25, reveals she is to marry former professor, 71, after seven months of dating. Clark. Lauren. April 28, 2019. Yahoo Style UK. en-US. 2019-04-28.