Jerome McGann

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Jerome McGann (born July 22, 1937) is a scholar, essayist, and editor. He is considered to be an authority on Romanticism (especially Lord Byron) and literary modernism. He has been married since 1960 (to Anne Lanni) and has three children (born 1963, 1965, 1967)

Educated at LeMoyne College (B.S. 1959), Syracuse University (M.A. 1962) and Yale University (Ph.D., 1966), McGann has taught at numerous universities and colleges, most recently the University of Virginia (1986- ). He is the recipient of numerous awards including a grant from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Other awards include: Melville Cane Award, American Poetry Society, 1973, for his work on Swinburne as "The Year's Best Critical Book about Poetry" and Distinguished Scholar Award from the Keats-Shelley Association of America (1989).

He has been a Fulbright Fellow (1965-66), an American Philosophical Society Fellow (1967) and Guggenheim Fellow (1970-71, 1976-77) among more than a dozen appointments he has received.^[1]

[edit] References

1. ^ Jerome McGann Homepage at the University of Virginia

[edit] Selected bibliography

• The Romantic Ideology: A Critical Investigation. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985)
• Byron and Romanticism. (Cambridge University Press, 2002) ISBN 0-521-00722-4