Marc Shell
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Marc Shell is a Canadian-born American literary critic, currently Irving Babbit Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English at Harvard University.
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[edit] "New Economic Criticism"
Shell is one of the forerunners, along with Jean-Joseph Goux and others, of the literary-critical movement that has been dubbed 'New Economic Criticism.' His contributions to the study of relations between linguistic and literary economies are encompassed in his three influential books
- The Economy of Literature (1978)
- Money, Language, and Thought (1982)
- Art and Money (1995).
[edit] Other areas of research
Shell has also worked on issues of incest, kinship, and nationalism in a number of other essays and books, including
- The End of Kinship : "Measure for measure," Incest, and the Ideal of Universal Siblinghood (1988)
- Children of the Earth: Literature, Politics, and Nationhood (1993)
[edit] Recent work
Shell's recent work has focused on non-English American literatures and disability studies. He is co-founder (with Werner Sollors) of Harvard's Longfellow Institute, devoted to the study of non-English American literatures.
[edit] Awards and degrees
Shell has received a Macarthur fellowship. He earned a B.A. from Stanford University and a Ph.D. from Yale University. Before coming to Harvard, he taught at University at Buffalo and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
