James Engell

Gurney Research Professor of English and Professor of Comparative Literature
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He/hisOffice: Barker 272
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Thursdays 3:00-4:30 in Northwest Bldg B103 and by appointment via email.

Education: B.A., Harvard University (1973)
Ph.D., Harvard University (1978)

Interests: Eighteenth Century and Restoration; Romanticism; Criticism and Critical Theory; Rhetoric; Environmental Studies.

Selected Works:
The Call of Classical Literature in the Romantic Age, co-edited with K. P. Van Anglen (2017); The Prelude by William Wordsworth, newly edited from the manuscripts and fully illustrated in color (2016); Environment: An Interdisciplinary Anthology (2008); 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); Forming the Critical Mind (1989); ed. and contributor, Johnson and His Age (1984); ed. (with W. J. Bate) Biographia Literaria for the Collected Coleridge (1983); The Creative Imagination (1981).

NOTE: James Engell retired June 30, 2024 and can no longer  sponsor or accept any graduate students, visiting scholars, or visiting graduate students.  If you are sending something to him via regular postal mail, please email him for his permanent address.