Professor
Lawrence Buell
Harvard University
Literary scholar; Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Literature and Language Studies
Elected
2008
Powell M. Cabot Research Professor of American Literature. Literary critic and cultural historian of early New England, known for studies of Transcendentalism and Emerson in a philosophical context. More recent work is in the field of ecocriticism, especially the study of American and other Anglophone literatures from the Industrial Revolution to the present in light of environmental history and environmental thought.
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