He is well-known for his study of American Naturalism, The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism; American Literature at the Turn of the Century, published in 1987. Michaels is a renowned teacher.

African American and American postmodern literature; 19th century realism and naturalism; The Harlem Renaissance; American literary modernism; Percival Everett; 19th, 20th and 21st century African ...

Link’s research has focused on 19th-century and 20th-century aesthetic theory, American literary naturalism, speculative fiction, and the intersections of philosophy, science and literature. Jeanne C.