Jerome McGann

(1987)
John Stewart Bryan University Professor
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century, History and Theory of Texts

Degrees

Ph.D. Yale, 1966
M.A. Syracuse, 1962
B.S. LeMoyne, 1959

Books

  • The Point is to Change It: Poetry and Criticism in the Continuing Present. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007.
  • The Scholar's Art: Literature and Scholarship in an Administered World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.
  • Algernon Charles Swinburne: Major Poems and Selected Prose. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.
  • Thomas Lovell Beddoes's "Death's Jest Book. A Stage Version. Belper, Derbyshire: The Thomas Lovell Beddoes Society, 2003.
  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti: The Collected Works. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.
  • Byron and Romanticism (Cambridge University Press, 2002).
  • Radiant Textuality: Literary Studies after the World Wide Web. Palgrave/St. Martins, 2001.
  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Game that Must be Lost. Yale University Press, 2000.
  • Byron and Wordsworth. Nottingham Byron Foundation: University of Nottingham, 1999.
  • Byron, Selected Writings. Oxford University Press: Oxford, 1997.
  • Laetitia Elizabeth Landon: Selected Writings, With Daniel Riess, Broadview Press: Toronto, 1997.
  • Four Last Poems. Pasdeloup Press, 1996.
  • Poetics of Sensibility: A Revolution in Literary Style. Clarendon Press, 1996.
  • Black Riders: The Visible Language of Modernism. Princeton University Press, 1993.
  • The New Oxford Book of Romantic Period Verse. Oxford University Press, 1993.
  • The Textual Condition. Princeton University Press, 1991.
  • Towards a Literature of Knowledge. Oxford University Press and University of Chicago Press, 1989.
  • Social Values and Poetic Acts. Harvard University Press, 1988.
  • The Beauty of Inflections: Literary Investigations in Historical Method and Theory. Clarendon Press, 1985.
  • A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism. University of Chicago Press, 1983.
  • The Romantic Ideology: A Critical Investigation. University of Chicago Press, 1983.
  • Nerves in Patterns (poems, with James Kahn). X Press, 1979.
  • Writing Home (poems, with Janet Kauffman). Coldwater Press, 1978.
  • Air Heart Sermons (poems). Pasdeloup Press, 1976.
  • Don Juan in Context. University of Chicago Press, 1976.
  • Swinburne: An Experiment in Criticism. University of Chicago Press, 1972.
  • Fiery Dust: Byron's Poetic Development. University of Chicago Press, 1969.
  • Editor of Victorian Connections. University Press of Virginia, 1989.
  • Editor of Postmodern Poetries, special issue of Verse (1990).
  • Editor of Textual Criticism and Literary Interpretation. University of Chicago Press, 1985.
  • Editor of The Oxford Authors Byron. Clarendon Press, 1986.
  • Editor of Historical Studies and Literary Criticism. University of Wisconsin Press, 1985.
  • Editor (with Alice Levine) of The Manuscripts of the Younger Romantics: Byron. 4 Vols. Garland, 1985-89.
  • Editor of Byron: The Complete Poetical Works, 7 vols. Clarendon Press, 1980- .
  • Editor of Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Pelham, or The Adventures of a Gentleman. University of Nebraska Press, 1972.

Essays

  • "Interpretation", in Introduction to Scholarship in Modern Languages and Literature, third edition, ed. David Nicholl. Modern Language Assoc. of America: New York, 2007): 160-170.
  • "Reading Lines Forum" [by various hands], Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, 8/9 (Spring-Fall 2006): 135-137
  • "High Instincts and Real Presences: Two Romantic Responses to the Death of Beauty," in Repossessing the Romantic Past, ed. Heather Glen and Paul Hamilton. Cambridge UP: Cambridge, 2006: 226-243.
  • "Looney Tunes and Unheard Melodies: An Oulipian Colonescapade with a Critique of 'The Great-Ape Love-Song Corpus' and its Lexicon", Descant 133 (Summer 2006): 111-130
  • (with Dino Buzzetti),"Critical Editing in a Digital Horizon", in Electronic Textual Editing, eds. Burnard, O'Keeffe, and Unsworth (MLA: New York, 2006): 53-73
  • "From Text to Work. Digital Tools and the Emergence of the Social Text," in Variants 4: The Book as Artifact Text and Border, ed. Anne Mette Hensen, Roger Ludeke, Wolfgang Streit, Cristina Urchueguia, and Peter Shillingsburg, The Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship (2005): 225-240.
  • "'The Grand Heretics of Modern Fiction': Laura Riding, John Cowper Powys, and the Subjective Correlative," Modernism/Modernity 13. 2 (April 2006): 309-324.
  • Culture and Technology:The Way We Live Now, What is to be Done?", New Literary History 36 (winter 2005): 71-82.
  • "Marking Texts in Many Dimensions," in A Companion to Digital Humanities , eds. Schreibman, Siemens, and Unsworth (Blackwell: Oxford, 2004): 198-217.)
  • "Byron, George Gordon, Lord", The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
  • "Modernity and Complicity: A Dialogue" (with Johanna Drucker), in Textual Practice 18.2 (2004): 207-219.
  • "Walter Scott's Romantic Postmodernity in Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism , ed. Leith Davis, Ian Duncan, and Janet Sorensen. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2004: 113-129
  • "Beauty, the Irreal, and the Willing Assumption of Disbelief," Critical Inquiry 30 (summer 2004): 717-738.
  • "Texts in N-Dimensions and Interpretation in a New Key," Text Technology (Special Issue devoted to IVANHOE) 12.2 (2003): 1-18.
  • "Swinburne's Radical Artifice; or, The Comedian as A. C.," Modernism/Modernity 11.2 (April 2004): 205-218.
  • "DG Rossetti and the Art of the Inner Standing-Point", in Outsiders Looking In. The Rossettis then and now , ed. David Clifford and Laurence Roussillon (Anthem Press: London, 2004): 171-187.
  • "Phases of English Romanticism", in English Romantic Poetry , ed. Harold Bloom (Chelsea House: Philadelphia, 2004): 117-128.
  • "A Note on the Current State of Humanities Scholarship," The Future of Criticism -- A Critical Inquiry Symposium , Critical Inquiry 30. 2 (winter 2004), 409-413.
  • "Textonics: Literary and Cultural Studies in a Quantum World", in The Culture of Collected Editions , ed. Anrew Nash (Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, 2003): 245-260.
  • "Herbert Horne's Diversi Colores (1891): Incarnating the Religion of Beauty," New Literary History 34.3 (summer 2003), 535-554.
  • "Romantic Scholarship and Culture 1960-2001: A Byronic View," Byron and Greece , ed. Byron Raizis. Byron Society of Missolonghi: Athens, 2003, 4-23.
  • "Literary Scholarship and the Digital Future," The Chronicle Review [The Chronicle of Higher Education Section 2] (December 13, 2002), B7-B9.
  • "The Gutenberg Variations", TEXT 14 (2002), 1-14; RBM 3.1 (spring 2002), 15-31.
  • "Reading Fiction/Teaching Fiction. A Pedagogical Experiment," Pedagogy I. 1 (Winter 2001), 143-165.
  • "Fundamental Brainwork", London Review of Books 22 (30 March 2000), 24-26.
  • "A Commentary on Some of Rossetti's Translation from Dante," The Journal or PreRaphaelite Studies, NS 9 (spring 2000), 25-38.
  • "Composition as Explanation (of Modern and PostModern Poetries)," in A Book of the Book, ed. Jerome Rothenberg and Steven Clay (Granary Books: New York, 2000), 228-245.
  • "What is Text?", in Marking the Text. The Presentation of Meaning on the Digital Page, ed, Joe Bray, Miriam Handley, Anne C. Henry (Ashgate: Aldershot, 2000), 329-334.
  • "The Life of the Dead: Laura Riding and the History of 20th Century Poetry," Twentieth Century American Literature after Midcentury. International Conference Proceedings, Kyiv, 25-27 May 1999. (Dovira: Kyiv, 2000), 190-207.
  • "Rossetti Degree Zero," Athena's Shuttle: Myth Religion Ideology from Romanticism to Modernism, ed. Franco Marucci and Emma Sdegno (Cisalpino Istituto Editoriale Universitario: Milano, 2000), 11-29.

Articles

  • "Culture and Technology:The Way We Live Now, What is to be Done?", New Literary History 36 (winter 2005): 71-82.
  • "Marking Texts in Many Dimensions," in A Companion to Digital Humanities , eds. Schreibman, Siemens, and Unsworth (Blackwell: Oxford, 2004): 198-217.)
  • "Byron, George Gordon, Lord", The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
  • "Modernity and Complicity: A Dialogue" (with Johanna Drucker), in Textual Practice 18.2 (2004): 207-219.
  • "Walter Scott's Romantic Postmodernity in Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism , ed. Leith Davis, Ian Duncan, and Janet Sorensen. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2004: 113-129.
  • "Beauty, the Irreal, and the Willing Assumption of Disbelief," Critical Inquiry 30 (summer 2004): 717-738.
  • "Texts in N-Dimensions and Interpretation in a New Key," Text Technology (Special Issue devoted to IVANHOE) 12.2 (2003): 1-18.
  • "Swinburne's Radical Artifice; or, The Comedian as A. C.," Modernism/Modernity 11.2 (April 2004): 205-218.
  • "DG Rossetti and the Art of the Inner Standing-Point", in Outsiders Looking In. The Rossettis then and now , ed. David Clifford and Laurence Roussillon (Anthem Press: London, 2004): 171-187.
  • "Phases of English Romanticism", in English Romantic Poetry , ed. Harold Bloom (Chelsea House: Philadelphia, 2004): 117-128.
  • "A Note on the Current State of Humanities Scholarship," The Future of Criticism -- A Critical Inquiry Symposium , Critical Inquiry 30. 2 (winter 2004), 409-413.
  • "Textonics: Literary and Cultural Studies in a Quantum World", in The Culture of Collected Editions , ed. Anrew Nash (Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, 2003): 245-260.
  • "Herbert Horne's Diversi Colores (1891): Incarnating the Religion of Beauty," New Literary History 34.3 (summer 2003), 535-554.
  • "Romantic Scholarship and Culture 1960-2001: A Byronic View," Byron and Greece , ed. Byron Raizis. Byron Society of Missolonghi: Athens, 2003, 4-23.
  • "Literary Scholarship and the Digital Future," The Chronicle Review [The Chronicle of Higher Education Section 2] (December 13, 2002), B7-B9.
  • "The Gutenberg Variations", TEXT 14 (2002), 1-14; RBM 3.1 (spring 2002), 15-31.
  • "Compu[e]ting Editorial Fu[ea]tures," in Reimagining Textuality. Textual Studies in the Late Age of Print , ed. Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux and Neil Fraistat (U of Wisconsin Press: Madison, 2002), 17-27.
  • "Dialogue and Interpretation at the Interface of Man and Machine. Reflections on Textuality and a Proposal for an Experiment in Machine Reading," Computers and the Humanities 36 (2002): 95-107.
  • with Johanna Drucker], "Images as the Text: Pictographs and Pictographic Rhetoric," Information Design Journal 10.2 (2000/1), 95-106.
  • "Who's Carving Up the Nineteenth-Century?," PMLA 116 no. 5 (October 2001), 1415-1421.
  • "Introduction," Public Artist, Private Passions: The World of Edward Linley Sambourne . Leighton House Publications: [London], 2001, 3-4.
  • "Visible and Invisible Books. Hermetic Images in N-Dimensional Space," New Literary History 32 (spring 2001), 283-300.
  • "Byron and Romanticism: An Interview with Jerome McGann," with James Soderholm. New Literary History 32 (winter 2001), 47-66.
  • "Rossetti Degree Zero," Athena's Shuttle. Myth Religion Ideology from Romanticism to Modernism , ed. Franco Marucci and Emma Sdegno (Cisalpino Istituto Editoriale Universitario: Milano, 2000), 11-29.
  • "The Life of the Dead: Laura Riding and the History of 20th Century Poetry," Twentieth Century American Literature after Midcentury . International Conference Proceedings, Kyiv, 25-27 May 1999. (Dovira: Kyiv, 2000), 190-207.
  • "Reading Fiction/Teaching Fiction. A Pedagogical Experiment," Pedagogy I. 1 (Winter 2001), 143-165.
  • "What is Text?", in Marking the Text. The Presentation of Meaning on the Digital Page , ed. Joe Bray, Miriam Handley, Anne C. Henry (Ashgate: Aldershot, 2000), 329-334.
  • "Composition as Explanation (of Modern and PostModern Poetries)," in A Book of the Book , ed. Jerome Rothenberg and Steven Clay (Granary Books: New York, 2000), 228-245.
  • "A Commentary on Some of Rossetti's Translations from Dante," The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies , NS 9 (spring 2000), 25-38.
  • "Fundamental Brainwork", London Review of Books 22 (30 March 2000), 24-26.
  • "Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Embodiment of Knowledge". The Harold Jantz Memorial Lecture, 1998 (Oberlin College, 1999).
  • "Textual Scholarship, Textual Theory, and the Uses of Electronic Tools. A Brief Report on Current Undertakings," Victorian Studies 41 (summer, 1998), 609-619.
  • "Poetry", in An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age. British Culture 1776-1832 ,, ed. Iain McCalman (Oxford UP: Oxford, 1999), 270-278.
  • "Deformance and Interpretation," New Literary History 30 (Winter, 1999), 25-56 (With Lisa Samuels).
  • "Dante and Rossetti: Translation, Pastiche, Ritual, Fate." The Hilda Hulme Lecture . (School of Advanced Study, U. of London, 1998).
  • "Hideous Progeny, Rough Beasts: Editing as a Theoretical Pursuit," TEXT XI (1998-1999), 1-16.
  • "Rossetti's Iconic Page", in The Iconic Page in Manuscript, Print, and Digital Culture, ed. George Bornstein and Theresa Tinkle (Ann Arbor: U. of Michigan Press, 1998), 123-140.
  • "The Failures of Romanticism", in Romanticism, History, and the Possibilities of Genre, ed. Tilottama Rajan and Julia M. Wright (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998), 270-286.
  • "The Rationale of Hypertext," in Electronic Text, Investigations in Method and Theory, ed. Katheryn Sutherland (Oxford UP, 1997), 19-46.
  • "Art and Error: With Special Reference to the Poetry of Robert Duncan," Modern Language Studies (Special Issue on "The Problem of Beauty", ed. Lisa Samuels) 17 no.2 (Summer 1997), 9-22. "The Alice Fallacy; or, Reptiles of the Mind. A Dialogue of Pleasure and Instruction," Chain (Summer 1995).
  • "Medieval v. Victorian v. Modern: D. G. Rossetti's Art of Images," Modernism/Modernity 2 (Jan. 1995), 97-112.
  • "Canonade," New Literary History 25 (Summer, 1994), 487-504.
  • "Rethinking Romanticism," English Literary History (1992)

Online Publications

Honors and Appointments

  • President, Society for Critical Exchange, 2005-
  • ACLS Committee on Cyberinfrastructure, 2004-2005
  • James Russell Lowell Award (from the Modern Language Association) for Radiant Textuality as the Most Distinguished Scholarly Book of the Year, 2002
  • Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award, 2002
  • Richard W. Lyman Award for Distinguished Contributions to Humanities Computing, National Humanities Center, 2002 (first award reciptient)
  • Senior Research Fellow, University College, London University, 2000-
  • Senior Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, University of London, 1999-
  • Getty Foundation Research Award, 3 years from 1999
  • The Hulme Lecture, University of London, 1999
  • The Jantz Lecture, Oberlin College, 1998
  • Byron Foundation Lecture, University of Nottingham, 1998
  • Avalon Visiting Professor, Northwestern U., Fall 1997
  • Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, University of Chicago, 1996
  • Patten Lectures. University of Indiana. 1995
  • President, Society for Textual Scholarship, 1995-1997
  • Beckman Visiting Professor, University of California (Berkeley), Spring 1994
  • Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1994
  • Beckman Lectures, University of California (Berkeley), 1991 Clark Lectures, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1988