Angus Fletcher

Angus Fletcher

Angus Fletcher

Professor
He/him/his

fletcher.300@osu.edu

472 Denney Hall
164 Annie & John Glenn Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210

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Areas of Expertise

  • Practical ethics
  • Cognitive approaches to literature
  • Rhetorical analysis
  • Story engineering
  • American TV and film
  • Renaissance drama
  • Greek and Roman literature
  • Screenwriting

Education

  • PhD, Yale, 2003

Angus Fletcher studies literature’s usefulness, treating it as a practical tool for alleviating poverty, hunger, heartbreak and other physical concerns by employing a range of empirical methods, from ancient rhetoric to modern science. He emphasizes neural diversity, cultural difference, evolutionary variety, narrative flexibility, the infiniteness of stories, behavioral adaptability, practical problem-solving, personal growth, democratic pluralism and the biological benefits of curiosity, inclusion and tolerance. Fletcher has published recently on Aristophanes and Austen, Darwin and Douglass, Machiavelli and Milton, Sappho and Shakespeare. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Fletcher has taught for University of Southern California, Stanford and Teach for America.

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