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Meredith McGill

Meredith L. McGill

Associate Professor of English

Contact Information
Office: 36 Union Street, 102
Campus: College Ave, New Brunswick
Email: mlmcgill@rci.rutgers.edu
Telephone: (732) 932-9241
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Specialization
Nineteenth-century American literature; history of the book; law and literature; American poetry and poetics; literary and cultural theory
Biography

B.A., Williams; M.A., (Cantab) Emmanuel College; M.A., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins

Professor McGill is the author of American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003).  She has published essays on American copyright law, handwriting and mass production, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Lowell, and Wallace Stevens.  She is currently working on two projects: a study of the circulation of poetry in the antebellum U.S., and a collection of essays from a conference held at Rutgers in Fall 2002: The Traffic in Poems: Nineteenth-century Poetry and Transatlantic Exchange.  Her research interests include the history of the book in American culture, American poetry and poetics, law and literature, and literary theory.

Publications

American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting 1834-1853

"Reading Poe, Reading Capitalism."  American Quarterly, Volume 53, Number 1, March 2001
Undergraduate Courses Taught Graduate Courses Taught

Principles of Literary Study

American Literature

Nineteenth-century Women's Writing

Literary Theory

American Literature

Literary Theory

Literary Properties

 
 
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