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Meredith L. McGill
Director of the Center for Cultural Analysis and Associate Professor of English

8 Bishop Place
College Avenue Campus

Office Hours: By Appointment

Meredith L. McGill is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Center for Cultural Analysis. She is the author of American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853 (2003), a study of nineteenth-century American resistance to tightening control over intellectual property. This book charts the effect of a decentralized mass-market for print on the development of a national literature, with particular focus on the writing and careers of Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. She recently edited a collection of essays, The Traffic in Poems: Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Transatlantic Exchange, in which a variety of scholars seek to model ways of understanding nineteenth-century poetry within a transatlantic frame. She is currently working on a study of the circulation of poetry in the antebellum United States. Her research interests include the history of the book in American culture, American poetry and poetics, law and literature, literary theory, new media and the history of media shift.
Other Departmental and University Positions
Director of Center for Cultural Analysis
Education Areas of Specialization
PhD, Johns Hopkins University
MA, (Cantab) Emmanuel College
BA, Williams College
Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Poetry and Poetics; History of the Book, Literature and New Media; Law and Literature
Books

American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853

The  Traffic in Poems: Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Transatlantic Exchange



Other Publications
Undergraduate Courses Taught Graduate Courses Taught
  • Principles of Literary Study
  • American Literature
  • Literary Theory
  • Nineteenth-century Women's Writing
  • American Literature
  • Literary Properties
  • Literary Theory
Awards and Distinctions Professional Memberships and Affiliations
  • Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society 2003-4
  • NEH/ Newberry Library Fellowship, 1995-6
  • Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society, 1995

  • Board of Supervisors, The English Institute, 2008-11
  • General Editor, ACLS e-book series, Selected Essays from the English Institute
  • Advisory Board, C19, 2008-
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