Professor Jerome McGann

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Name:
Professor Jerome McGann
Qualifications:
Ph.D. Yale, M.A.Syracuse, B.S. LeMoyne
Position/Fellowship type:
Senior Research Fellow
Institute:
Institute of English Studies
Home institution:
University of Virginia
Location:
University of Virginia
Email address:
jmcgann@virginia.edu
Website:
http://www.engl.virginia.edu/people/jjm2f

Research Summary and Profile

Research interests:
English Literature
Summary of research interests and expertise:

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century, History and Theory of Texts

Publication Details

Related publications/articles:

Date Details
01-Jan-2014 A New Republic of Letters.

Monographs

 A New Republic of Letters. Memory and Scholarship in the Age of Digital Reproduction (Harvard U. Press, 2014)

01-Jan-2014 The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

Research aids

The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. A Hypermedia Research Archive. (Begun in 1992, the Archive is being brought to its planned completion in May 2008. It is an online work consisting of some 25,000 text and image files of all of Rossetti’s textual and pictorial works, as well as many works of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement and other important contemporary materials, along with extensive editorial notes and commentaries on all of these materials). I continue to augment the project in regular ways.

11-Nov-2013 “Poetry and the Politics of a Poetry without Politics,

 “Poetry and the Politics of a Poetry without Politics,” Literature Compass 10. 11 (November 2013): Part 1, 871-884; Part 2, 885-894.

01-Sep-2013 Philology in a New Key

Articles

 "Philology in a New Key", Critical Inquiry 39.2 (2013): 327-346.

01-Sep-2013 Coda: Why Digital Textual Scholarship Matters; or, Philology in a New Key, Practice and Theory

Papers

 "Coda: Why Digital Textual Scholarship Matters; or, Philology in a New Key, Practice and Theory", in the The Cambridge Companion to Textual Scholarship, ed. Neil Fraistat and Julia Flanders (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2013): 274-288.

01-Sep-2013 American Memory in Black Elk Speaks

Articles

 "American Memory in Black Elk Speaks", New Literary History 44. 3 (Summer 2013): 401-424.

01-Sep-2013 'The Bells’, Performance, and the Politics of Poetry

Review

 “’The Bells’, Performance, and the Politics of Poetry,” The Edgar Allan Poe Review 15.1 (Spring 2014) : 47-59.

01-Jan-2004 'Beauty, the Irreal, and the Willing Assumption of Disbelief'

Journal articles

'Beauty, the Irreal, and the Willing Assumption of Disbelief', in Critical Inquiry 30, (Summer 2004)

01-Jan-2003 Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The Collected Works

Edited Book

Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The Collected Works (New Haven: Yale UP, 2003)

01-Jan-2003 Thomas Lovell Beddoe's Death's Jest. A Stage Version

Monographs

Thomas Lovell Beddoe's Death's Jest. A Stage Version (Belper, Derbyshire: The Thomas Lovell Beddoes Society, 2003)

01-Jan-2003 'Romantic Scholarship and Culture 1960-2001: A Byronic View'

Chapters

'Romantic Scholarship and Culture 1960-2001: A Byronic View', in Byron and Greece, ed. Byron Raizis (Byron Society of Missolonghi: Athens, 2003)

01-Jan-2003 'Herbert Horne's Diversi Colores (1891): Incarnating the Religion of Beauty'

Journal articles

'Herbert Horne's Diversi Colores (1891): Incarnating the Religion of Beauty', in New Literary History 34.3 (Summer 2003)

01-Jan-2003 'Textonics: Literary and Cultural Studies in a Quantum World'

Chapters

'Textonics: Literary and Cultural Studies in a Quantum World', in The Culture of Collected Editions, ed. Andrew Nash (Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, 2003)

01-Jan-2002 Byron and Romanticism

Cambridge University Press

01-Jan-2001 Radiant Textuality

Palgrave Macmillan

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Research aids

Byron, George Gordon, Lord

'Text in N-Dimensions and Interpretations in a New Key'

Journal articles

'Text in N-Dimensions and Interpretations in a New Key', Text Technology (Special Issue devoted to IVANHOE)

Relevant Events

Related events:

Date Details
01-Jul-2014 Reflections on Textual and Documentary Media in a Romantic and Post-Romantic Horizon

 “Reflections on Textual and Documentary Media in a Romantic and Post-Romantic Horizon” (U. of California, Berkeley, lecture: February 2014; NASSR Conference, July 2014)

01-Jul-2014 Victorian Poetry and Photography

 Seminar, Bread Loaf School Of English, Middlebury College, July 2014. ‘Victorian Poetry and Photography’.

03-Mar-2014 I A Richards and Nineteenth-Century Aesthetics in the Twentieth Century

 Shows of London Seminar, Kings College London, March 2014. ‘I A Richards and Nineteenth-Century Aesthetics in the Twentieth Century’.

03-Feb-2014 Reflections on Textual and Documentary Media in a Romantic and Post-Romantic Horizon

 “Reflections on Textual and Documentary Media in a Romantic and Post-Romantic Horizon” (U. of California, Berkeley, lecture: February 2014; NASSR Conference, July 2014)

01-Jan-2014 The Value of Literature

 ‘The Value of Literature’, Oxford University Symposium, January, 2014, Convener, Helen Small, Panel discussion.

01-Jan-2014 Shakespeare in Italy

 Shakespeare in Italy : 2014 Spring term course taught in Rome for U. of Washington

01-Nov-2013 University of Chicago Center for Poetics

 University of Chicago Center for Poetics, November 2013. Discussion of my unpublished essay ‘Towards a Perlocutionary Poetics’.

01-Nov-2013 Philological Investigations: The Title Page of Cooper’s The Pioneers

 Philological Investigations: The Title Page of Cooper’s The Pioneers (Rice University, November 2013)

01-Oct-2013 Digital Resources and Research Opportunities

 “Digital Resources and Research Opportunities” (Folger Shakespeare Library, October 2013)

01-Oct-2013 Felix Holt and Genealogy

 Annual George Eliot Conference, Romola and Felix Holt, Convener, Barbara Hardy, University of London, October 2013. ‘Felix Holt and Genealogy’.

01-Sep-2013 Archival Memory and the Philological Conscience

 “Archival Memory and the Philological Conscience,” Malkin Lecture, Rare Book School (Summer 2013)

01-Sep-2013 On Designing a Research Center for Manuscript Studies

 “On Designing a Research Center for Manuscript Studies” (U. of Cincinnati, September 2013)

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