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| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (2013) |
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| Discipline | American literature |
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Robert S. Levine is a scholar of American and African American literature. He is currently Distinguished University Professor and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland,College Park.
Levine received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1975 and his PhD from Stanford University in 1981. [1] [2] His research focuses on 19th-century American literature,especially on the life and works of Frederick Douglass. [3] He sits on the editorial boards of numerous academic journals including American Literary History and Journal of American Studies and serves as General Editor of The Norton Anthology of American Literature. [4]
Herman Melville was an American novelist,short story writer,and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851);Typee (1846),a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia;and Billy Budd,Sailor,a posthumously published novella. At the time of his death,Melville was no longer well known to the public,but the 1919 centennial of his birth was the starting point of a Melville revival. Moby-Dick eventually would be considered one of the great American novels.
Francis Otto Matthiessen was an educator,scholar and literary critic influential in the fields of American literature and American studies. His best known work,American Renaissance:Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman,celebrated the achievements of several 19th-century American authors and had a profound impact on a generation of scholars. It also established American Renaissance as the common term to refer to American literature of the mid-nineteenth century. Matthiessen was known for his support of liberal causes and progressive politics. His contributions to the Harvard University community have been memorialized in several ways,including an endowed visiting professorship.
The American Renaissance period in American literature ran from about 1830 to around the Civil War. A central term in American studies,the American Renaissance was for a while considered synonymous with American Romanticism and was closely associated with Transcendentalism.
Jonathan Goldberg was an American literary theorist who was the Sir William Osler Professor of English Literature at Johns Hopkins University,and Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at Emory University where he directed Studies in Sexualities from 2008 to 2012. His work frequently deals with the connections between early modern literature and modern thought,particularly in issues of gender,sexuality,and materiality. He received his BA,MA,and PhD from Columbia University.
Richard A. Yarborough is Professor of English and African-American literature and a Faculty Research Associate with the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at the University of California,Los Angeles. He is also an editor of The Heath Anthology of American Literature.
James David Hart,was an American literary scholar and professor at University of California,Berkeley for fifty-four years. He is most notable for writing The Oxford Companion to American Literature and A Companion to California.
Hershel Parker is an American professor of English and literature,noted for his research into the works of Herman Melville. Parker is the H. Fletcher Brown Professor Emeritus at the University of Delaware. He is co-editor with Harrison Hayford of the Norton Critical Edition of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick,and the General Editor of the Northwestern-Newberry Edition of The Writings of Herman Melville,which,with the publication of volume 13,"Billy Budd,Sailor" and Other Uncompleted Writings,is now (2017) complete in fifteen volumes. Parker is the author of a two-volume biography of Herman Melville published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Parker also edited the first ever one-volume edition of Melville's complete poetry,Herman Melville:Complete Poems,published by the Library of America in 2019.
The bibliography of Herman Melville includes magazine articles,book reviews,other occasional writings,and 15 books. Of these,seven books were published between 1846 and 1853,seven more between 1853 and 1891,and one in 1924. Melville was 26 when his first book was published,and his last book was not released until 33 years after his death. At the time of his death he was on the verge of completing the manuscript for his first novel in three decades,Billy Budd,and had accumulated several large folders of unpublished verse.
Merton M. Sealts Jr. was a scholar of American literature,focusing on Ralph Waldo Emerson and Herman Melville. His most important works are the genetic edition of Melville's Billy Budd,Sailor,Pursuing Melville,1940–1980 (1982) and Melville's Reading. He taught at Lawrence College (1948–1965),and became Henry A. Pochmann Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1965-1982). He won both Ford Foundation and Guggenheim fellowships.
John Stauffer is Professor of English,American Studies,and African American Studies at Harvard University. He writes and lectures on the Civil War era,antislavery,social protest movements,and photography.
Stanley Thomas Williams was a scholar who helped to establish the study of American literature as an academic field during his teaching career at Yale University. In 1935 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. His most notable publication is a two-volume biography of Washington Irving but he is best remembered for changing the study of Herman Melville by strategically directing doctoral dissertations on his life and works.
George Thomas Tanselle is an American textual critic,bibliographer,and book collector,especially known for his work on Herman Melville. He was Vice President of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation from 1978 to 2006.
Raymond Melbourne Weaver was a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University in 1916–1948,and a literary scholar best known for publishing Herman Melville:Mariner and Mystic,the first full biography of American author Herman Melville (1819–1891) in 1921 and editing Melville's works. Weaver's scholarly credentials,training,and persuasiveness were important in launching the "Melville Revival" of the 1920s that brought Melville from obscurity to wide recognition.
Harrison Mosher Hayford was a scholar of American literature,most prominently of Herman Melville,a book-collector,and a textual editor. He taught at Northwestern University from 1942 until his retirement in 1986. He was a leading figure in the post-World War II generation of Melville scholars who mounted the Melville Revival. He was General Editor of the Northwestern-Newberry The Writings of Herman Melville published by Northwestern University Press,which established reliable texts for all of Melville's works by using techniques of textual criticism.
David Van Leer was an American educator and LGBT cultural studies researcher.
Susan Laura Mizruchi is professor of English literature and the William Arrowsmith Professor in the Humanities at Boston University. Her research interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature,religion and culture,literary and social theory,literary history,history of the social sciences,and American and Global Film and TV. Since 2016,she has served as the director of the Boston University Center for the Humanities.
Greg Clingham is a British literary scholar and publisher. He was Professor of English (2001–18) at Bucknell University,Pennsylvania,where he held the NEH Chair in the Humanities (1996–99) and the John P. Crozer Chair of English Literature (2011–16). He was for twenty-three years,the director of Bucknell University Press (1996-2018).
Nick Bromell is an American author and educator in the field of intellectual history. He is the professor of American studies at University of Massachusetts Amherst. In his writing and research,he specializes in media and public opinion,race and ethnicity,and democracy and governance. He was the founding editor of the political and literary magazine Boston Review.
Joshua Bennett is an American author,professor and artist. He is a Professor of Literature and Distinguished Chair of Humanities at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Kristina Milnor is Professor of Classics in the Department of Classics and Ancient Studies at Barnard College,Columbia University. She specialises in Latin literature,Roman history,feminist theory and gender studies.