Jerome McGann
Encyclopedia
Jerome McGann is a textual scholar whose work focuses on the history of literature and culture from the late eighteenth-century to the present.
(B.S. 1959), Syracuse University
(M.A.
1962) and Yale University
(Ph.D.
, 1966), McGann currently teaches at the University of Virginia
(1986–present), where he arrived after leaving Caltech.
McGann is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
and has received honorary doctoral degrees from University of Chicago (1996) and University of Athens (2009). Other awards include: Melville Cane Award, American Poetry Society, 1973, for his work on Swinburne
as "The Year's Best Critical Book about Poetry"; Distinguished Scholar Award from the Keats
-Shelley
Association of America (1989); Distinguished Scholar Award from the Byron Society of America, 1989; and the Wilbur Cross Medal, Yale University Graduate School, 1994.
In 2002 he was the recipient of three major awards: the Richard W. Lyman Award for Distinguished Contributions to Humanities Computing, National Humanities Center (first award recipient); the James Russell Lowell Award (from the Modern Language Association) for Radiant Textuality as the Most Distinguished Scholarly Book of the Year; and the Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award.
He has been a Fulbright Fellow (1965–66), an American Philosophical Society Fellow (1967) and Guggenheim Fellow (1970–71, 1976–77) and has been awarded NEH grants in 1975-76, 1987–89, 2003–2006, as well as grants from the Getty Foundation, the Delmas Foundation, and the Mellon Foundation. He has held more than a dozen other appointments, including President, Society for Textual Scholarship, 1995–1997; and President, Society for Critical Exchange, 2005-6. Since 1999 he has been a Senior Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies
, University of London
and since 2000 a Senior Research Fellow, University College, London.
Career
Educated at Le Moyne CollegeLe Moyne College
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(B.S. 1959), Syracuse University
Syracuse University
Syracuse University is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, United States. Its roots can be traced back to Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1832, which also later founded Genesee College...
(M.A.
Master of Arts (postgraduate)
A Master of Arts from the Latin Magister Artium, is a type of Master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The M.A. is usually contrasted with the M.S. or M.Sc. degrees...
1962) and Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
(Ph.D.
Ph.D.
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, 1966), McGann currently teaches at the University of Virginia
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...
(1986–present), where he arrived after leaving Caltech.
McGann is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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and has received honorary doctoral degrees from University of Chicago (1996) and University of Athens (2009). Other awards include: Melville Cane Award, American Poetry Society, 1973, for his work on Swinburne
Swinburne
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as "The Year's Best Critical Book about Poetry"; Distinguished Scholar Award from the Keats
John Keats
John Keats was an English Romantic poet. Along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, he was one of the key figures in the second generation of the Romantic movement, despite the fact that his work had been in publication for only four years before his death.Although his poems were not...
-Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. Shelley was famous for his association with John Keats and Lord Byron...
Association of America (1989); Distinguished Scholar Award from the Byron Society of America, 1989; and the Wilbur Cross Medal, Yale University Graduate School, 1994.
In 2002 he was the recipient of three major awards: the Richard W. Lyman Award for Distinguished Contributions to Humanities Computing, National Humanities Center (first award recipient); the James Russell Lowell Award (from the Modern Language Association) for Radiant Textuality as the Most Distinguished Scholarly Book of the Year; and the Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award.
He has been a Fulbright Fellow (1965–66), an American Philosophical Society Fellow (1967) and Guggenheim Fellow (1970–71, 1976–77) and has been awarded NEH grants in 1975-76, 1987–89, 2003–2006, as well as grants from the Getty Foundation, the Delmas Foundation, and the Mellon Foundation. He has held more than a dozen other appointments, including President, Society for Textual Scholarship, 1995–1997; and President, Society for Critical Exchange, 2005-6. Since 1999 he has been a Senior Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies
Institute of English Studies
The Institute of English Studies is a centre of excellence in the research, promotion and facilitation in the field English Literature and Language. With a specialisation in Book History, Palaeography and Textual Scholarship, the IES facilitates the advanced study and research of English Studies...
, University of London
University of London
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and since 2000 a Senior Research Fellow, University College, London.
Academic Work
McGann's most notable works were the two books published in 1983, The Romantic Ideology and A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism. McGann has also written four books of poetry including Air Heart Sermons (1976) and Four Last Poems (1996), both published by Pasdeloup Press in Canada. In 1993, McGann began his The Rossetti Archive (1993–2008). He is also the founder of the Applied Research in Patacriticism digital laboratory, which includes such software projects as IVANHOE and NINES.Personal life
McGann has been married since 1960 (to Anne Lanni) and has three children (born 1963, 1965, 1967)External links
Selected bibliography
- Fiery Dust: Byron's Poetic Development. University of Chicago Press, 1969
- Swinburne: An Experiment in Criticism. University of Chicago Press, 1972
- The Romantic Ideology: A Critical Investigation. University of Chicago Press, 1983
- A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism. University of Chicago Press, 1983
- The Beauty of Inflections: Literary Investigations in Historical Method and Theory. Clarendon Press, 1985
- Social Values and Poetic Acts. Harvard U. Press, 1987
- Towards a Literature of Knowledge. Oxford U. Press and U. of Chicago Press, 1989
- The Textual Condition. Princeton U. Press, 1991
- Black Riders: The Visible Language of Modernism. Princeton UP, 1993
- Byron: The Complete Poetical Works, ed. with Introduction, Apparatus, and Commentaries. 7 Vols. Clarendon Press, The Oxford English Texts series, 1980–1993
- Poetics of Sensibility. A Revolution in Literary Style. Oxford UP, 1996
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Game that Must be Lost. Yale UP, 2000
- Radiant Textuality. Literature Since the World Wide Web. Palgrave/St Martins, 2001
- Byron and Romanticism. Cambridge University Press, 2002
- Algernon Charles Swinburne. Major Poems and Selected Prose. Yale UP, 2004
- The Scholar's Art. Literary Studies in a Managed World. U. of Chicago Press, 2006
- The Point is to Change It. Poetry and Criticism in the Continuing Present. U. of Alabama Press, 2007
- Stephen Crane's The Black Riders and other lines, ed. with Afterword. Rice UP, Literature by Design series, 2009
- Byron's Manfred. Pasdeloup Press, 2009
- Are the Humanities Inconsequent? An Interpretation of Marx's Riddle of the Dog. Prickly Paradigm Press, 2009
- Online Humanities Scholarship. The Shape of Things to Come, ed. with an Introduction. Rice UP, 2010