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Professor
James Engell
Harvard University
Language and literary scholar; Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Literature and Language Studies
Elected
2005
Scholar, critic, and editor. Clarified and illuminated the transition between eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literary principles and practice in Great Britain and Germany. Participated in contemporary public debates about education and about the importance of the humanities.
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