K. L. Evans

My research specialty is Literature and Philosophy. I am the author, most recently, of One Foot in the Finite: Melville’s Realism Reclaimed (Northwestern University Press, 2018), which explores Melville’s passion for philosophy that does not progressively distance itself from the concrete lives of humans. I have in addition written Whale! (University of Minnesota Press, 2003), a reframing of Ahab’s pursuit of the whale as a search for connection and meaning, and co-edited (with Branka Arsić, Professor of English at Columbia University) Melville’s Philosophies (Bloomsbury, 2017). My work has appeared in such journals as Philosophy: The Journal of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, and ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, and discusses such authors as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Matthew Arnold as well as Stanley Cavell, Henri Bergson, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. More details at www.klevans.org and you can contact me at mail@klevans.org