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• NAME: Maureen N. McLane (Will not be teaching 2008-09)
• FIELD IN HISTORY AND LITERATURE: Britain and America
• Ph.D., University of Chicago (English and American Literature)
• AREAS OF INTEREST:
  • British literature and culture, 1750-1830; Twentieth Century and contemporary North American poetry; Modernism; Postmodernism; 20th C. American literary culture; Gender/Sexuality Studies; Psychoanalysis; Anglophone Historicisms and Historiographies, 18th-20th C; Media Studies; Poetries in English
  
  
  • More detail: British romanticism – poetry, politics, the novel, moral philosophy; The “Age of Revolutions”; Scottish and English literary histories, 1750-1830; British literary antiquarianism and cultural nationalism, 1750-1830; Anglo-American Modernism – poetry and the novel; Contemporary US poetry and literary culture; Minstrels and Minstrelsy, US and UK; Balladeering [Ballad-collecting, writing, forging, historicizing, editing, recording, singing]: English, Scottish, and American, 1750-present; History of Media Theory and Poetics: the interface of oral, written, print, and electronic medialities, particularly with regard to poetry
• DISSERTATION: Poetry Bound: Romantic Writing and the Science of Man
• BOOK TITLES:
• Romanticism and the Human Sciences: Poetry, Population and the Discourse of the Species (Cambridge University Press, 2000)
• This Carrying Life II (chapbook of poems), (Arrowsmith/Pressed Wafer, 2006)
• Going with the Sun: Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, forthcoming)
• The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry, ed. with James K. Chandler (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2008)
• Minstrels, Milkmaids, Media: Balladeering and the Making of British Romanticism (under review, CUP)
• Many essays and book reviews on contemporary poetry, fiction, cultural history, gay history, and education published in the New York Times Book Section, The Chicago Tribune Book Section, and The Boston Globe.
• E-MAIL ADDRESS: mclane@fas
• OFFICE: Barker 039
• HOME PHONE: 617-497-1013

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