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

  • Are the Humanities Inconsequent? A Reading of Marx's Riddle of the
    Dog    . (Prickly Paradigm Press: Chicago, 2009)
  • Byron's Manfred, with illustration by Virgil Burnett. (Pasdelooup
    Press: Stratford, 2009)
  • The Black Riders and other lines, by Stephen Crane. ed Jerome
    McGann. (Rice UP: Houston, 2009).
  • 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

  • "Database, Interface, and Archival Fever", PMLA 122.5 (October 2007): 1588-1592.
  • "Death's Jest Book on Stage in 2003", in The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Lovell Beddoes, ed. Ute Berns and Michael Bradshaw (Ashgate: Aldershot, 2007): 241-243.
  • "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 (two other versions of this essay have been published in: Romanticism on the Net 41-42 (Feb. - May 2006); and in Text 16 (2006): 49-62).
  • "'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.
  • "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

  • Co-Founder (with Edward Ayers, Alan Batson, Kendon Stubbs, William Wolf), Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities: University of Virginia, 1993-
  • Founder and Project Director: ARP (Applied Research in 'Patacriticism) , U. of Virginia, 2003-
  • Founder and Co-Director: NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship , 2003-2008
  • ACLS Committee on Cyberinfrastructure, 2004-2006 President, Society for Critical Exchange, 2005-2006
  • 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)
  • Co-Founder (with Johanna Drucker): Speculative Computing Laboratory (SPECLAB) , University of Virginia, 2001-2003
  • Senior Research Fellow, University College, London University, 2000-
  • Senior Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, University of London, 1999-
  • Avalon Visiting Professor, Northwestern U., fall 1997
  • Getty Foundation Research Award, 3 years from 1999
  • Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, University of Chicago, 1996
  • President, Society for Textual Scholarship, 1995-1997
  • Beckman Visiting Professor, U. of California/Berkeley, 1994
  • Wilbur Cross Medal, Yale University Graduate School, 1994
  • Fellow, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, 1992-1993; Associate Fellow, 1993-
  • Distinguished Scholar Award from the Keats-Shelley Association of America, 1989
  • NEH Fellow, 1975-76, 1987-1989, 2003-2006
  • Byron Society, Distinguished Scholar Award, 1989
  • The Alexander Lectures, University of Toronto, Spring 1986: "Adverse Wheels: The Truth Functions of Poetic Discourse" (in part published as Social Values and Poetic Acts.
  • Melville Cane Award, American Poetry Society, 1973, for Swinburne as "The Year's Best Critical Book about Poetry."
  • Guggenheim Fellow, 1970-1971, 1976-1977
  • Fels Foundation Fellow, 1965-1966 American Philosophical Society Fellow, 1967, summer
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fulbright Fellow, 1965-1966