Jerome John McGann (born July 22, 1937) is an American academic and textual scholar whose work focuses on the history of literature and culture from the late eighteenth century to the present.

Career

Educated at Le Moyne College ( B.S. 1959),

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( M.A. 1962) and

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

( Ph.D., 1966), McGann is a Professor Emeritas at the

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(1986–present), where he arrived after leaving

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. McGann is a member of the

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and the

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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 Algernon Charles Swinburne (5 April 1837 – 10 April 1909) was an English poet, playwright, novelist and critic. He wrote many plays – all tragedies – and collections of poetry such as '' Poems and Ballads'', and contributed to the Eleve ...

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 Prize (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

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(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,

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and since 2000 a senior research fellow,

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at the University of Virginia

Academic work

McGann published two books in 1983, ''The Romantic Ideology'' and ''A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism''. In the early 1990s he helped found the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) at the University of Virginia. McGann has written six books of poetry, including ''Air Heart Sermons'' (1976) and ''Four Last Poems'' (1996), both published by Pasdeloup Press in Canada. He is 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.

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 University Press, 1987 *''Towards a Literature of Knowledge''. Oxford University Press and University of Chicago Press, 1989 *''The Textual Condition''. Princeton University Press, 1991 *''Black Riders: The Visible Language of Modernism''. Princeton University Press, 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 University Press, 1996 *''Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Game that Must be Lost''. Yale University Press, 2000 *''Radiant Textuality. Literature Since the World Wide Web''. Palgrave/St Martins, 2001 *''

Byron George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was an English poet. He is one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, and is regarded as being among the greatest poets of the United Kingdom. Among his best-kno ...

and Romanticism''. Cambridge University Press, 2002 *''Algernon Charles Swinburne. Major Poems and Selected Prose''. Yale University Press, 2004 *''The Scholar's Art. Literary Studies in a Managed World''. University of Chicago Press, 2006 *''The Point is to Change It. Poetry and Criticism in the Continuing Present''. University of Alabama Press, 2007 *''Stephen Crane's The Black Riders and other lines'', ed. with Afterword. Rice University Press, 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 University Press, 2010 *''A New Republic of Letters: Memory and Scholarship in the Age of Digital Reproduction''. Harvard University Press, 2014 *''The Poet Edgar Allan Poe: Alien Angel''. Harvard University Press, 2014 *''Keats and the Historical Method in Literary Criticism''. Modern Language Notes 94.5 (1979): 988–1032

References

External links

NINES website

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