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**James Engell** is Gurney Professor of English and Professor of Comparative Literature, also a member of the Committee on the Study of Religion, and a faculty associate of the Harvard University Center for the Environment. He has also directed dissertations in American Studies, as well as Romance Languages & Literatures (French).

**Education:** B.A. 1973, Ph.D. 1978 Harvard

**Interests:** Romantic, Eighteenth-Century, and Restoration British Literature; Comparative Romanticism; Criticism and Critical Theory; Rhetoric; Environmental Studies; History and Economics of Higher Education

**Selected Works:** *The Call of Classical Literature in the Romantic Age* (2017, ed. with K. P. Van Anglen) and contributor, "The Other Classic: Hebrew Shapes British and American Literature and Culture." William Wordsworth's *Prelude* (1805), edited from the manuscripts and fully illustrated in color (2016, ed. with Michael D. Raymond). *Environment: An Interdisciplinary Anthology* (2008, ed. with Adelson, Ranalli, and Van Anglen). *Saving Higher Education in the Age of Money* (2005, with Anthony Dangerfield). *The Committed Word: Literature and Public Values* (1999). *Coleridge: The Early Family Letters* (1994, ed.). *Forming the Critical Mind* (1989).  *Johnson and His Age* (1984, ed. and contributor). *Biographia Literaria* for the *Collected Coleridge* (1983, ed. with W. Jackson Bate). *The Creative Imagination: Enlightenment to Romanticism* (1981).



 

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