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Michael Hamburger is specialist in nineteenth century Romanticism (the literature, the art, and their sociopolitical contexts). Before receiving his doctorate in Literature from Boston University, Hamburger studied painting, drawing, and art history. At MassArt, he has designed and taught classes in Black Writers, Post-War Asian Cinema, and Modern European Cinema, in addition to Word and Image in the Nineteenth Century, Literary Traditions, and Thinking, Making, Writing. Hamburger’s current interests include cross-cultural perspectives in European and Asian cinema, and the conceptual/philosophical intersections between the visual and literary arts.

In the MassArt First Year Writing Program, Hamburger designs and delivers classroom exercises in word and image combined, inviting students to examine writing and creating as related activities. In the six years that Hamburger has been teaching in the MassArt First Year Writing program, he has demonstrated a gift for teaching students how to think through making their art and then to write about this process.

In the Humanities Department at MassArt, Michael Hamburger teaches Thinking Making Writing and Literary Traditions, as well as other courses in literature and film.