James Engell
Gurney Professor of English Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature
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Profile
James Engell is Gurney Professor of English and Professor of Comparative Literature, also a member of the Committee on the Study of Religion, and a faculty associate of the Harvard University Center for the Environment. He has also directed dissertations in American Studies, as well as Romance Languages & Literatures (French).
Education: B.A. 1973, Ph.D. 1978 Harvard
Interests: Romantic, Eighteenth-Century, and Restoration British Literature; Comparative Romanticism; Criticism and Critical Theory; Rhetoric; Environmental Studies; History and Economics of Higher Education
Selected Works: The Call of Classical Literature in the Romantic Age (2017, ed. with K. P. Van Anglen) and contributor, "The Other Classic: Hebrew Shapes British and American Literature and Culture." William Wordsworth's Prelude (1805), edited from the manuscripts and fully illustrated in color (2016, ed. with Michael D. Raymond). Environment: An Interdisciplinary Anthology (2008, ed. with Adelson, Ranalli, and Van Anglen). Saving Higher Education in the Age of Money (2005, with Anthony Dangerfield). The Committed Word: Literature and Public Values (1999). Coleridge: The Early Family Letters (1994, ed.). Forming the Critical Mind (1989). Johnson and His Age (1984, ed. and contributor). Biographia Literaria for the Collected Coleridge (1983, ed. with W. Jackson Bate). The Creative Imagination: Enlightenment to Romanticism (1981).
Contact
Email: jengell@fas.harvard.edu
Additional Website: https://scholar.harvard.edu/jengell/home
Expertise
Romantic, Eighteenth-Century, and Restoration British Literature
Comparative Romanticism
Criticism and Critical Theory
Rhetoric
Environmental Studies
History and Economics of Higher Education
Comparative Romanticism
Criticism and Critical Theory
Rhetoric
Environmental Studies
History and Economics of Higher Education
Outside professional activities
Outside Professional Activities
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College Literature
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Harvard University Press
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The Authors Registry
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Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson
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Yale University Press
Inventorship/Authorship on Intellectual Property (license/royalties)
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