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Meredith McGill

Meredith L. McGill

Associate Professor of English

Director, Center for Cultural Analysis

Contact Information
Office: 8 Bishop Place
Campus: College Ave, New Brunswick
Email: mlmcgill@rci.rutgers.edu
Telephone: (732) 932-8426
Office Hours:

Monday 2:00-3:30 pm

Tuesday and Wednesday by appointment

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

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 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 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.

Publications

American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting 1834-1853
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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