Tim Dayton
Professor / Graduate Faculty
Ph.D. 1990, Duke University.
Email: tadayton@ksu.edu
Office: English/Counseling Services Bldg. 108C
Phone: (785) 532-2155
Fields of interest:
20th Century American Literature; Cultural Studies; Critical Theory.
Tim Dayton specializes in 20th century American literature and Marxist literary and
cultural theory. He has recently published on crime novelist Jim Thompson, German
Marxist theorists Ernst Bloch and Walter Benjamin, and American poet Muriel Rukeyser.
He has recently completed a book-length manuscript on Muriel Rukeyser's long poem
The Book of the Dead, and currently is working on American literature and culture
in relation to the First World War.