Jerome McGann
Jerome John McGann (born July 22, 1937) is an American academic and textual scholar whose work focuses on the history of literature and culture from the late eighteenth century to the present.
Career
[edit]Educated at Le Moyne College (B.S. 1959), Syracuse University (M.A. 1962) and Yale University (Ph.D., 1966), McGann is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia (1986–present).[1]
McGann is a member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received honorary doctoral degrees from the University of Chicago in 1996 and the University of Athens in 2009.[2]
His honors include the Melville Cane Award from the American Poetry Society (1973), the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Keats-Shelley Association of America (1989), the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Byron Society of America (1989), and the Wilbur Cross Medal from Yale University Graduate School (1994).[1] In 2002, he received the Richard W. Lyman Award for Distinguished Contributions to Humanities Computing, the James Russell Lowell Prize from the Modern Language Association for Radiant Textuality, and the Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award.[3]
McGann has held fellowships from the Fulbright Program, the American Philosophical Society, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Getty Foundation, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.[4] He served as president of the Society for Textual Scholarship from 1995 to 1997 and of the Society for Critical Exchange from 2005 to 2006. Since 1999, he has been a senior research fellow at the Institute of English Studies, University of London, and since 2000 has also been a senior research fellow at University College London.[5]
Academic work
[edit]McGann published two books in 1983, The Romantic Ideology and A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism.[6]
In the early 1990s he helped found the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) at the University of Virginia.[7]
He is the founder of the Applied Research in Patacriticism digital laboratory, which includes such software projects as IVANHOE and NINES.[8]
Personal life
[edit]McGann has been married since 1960 (to Anne Lanni) and has three children.[9]
Selected bibliography
[edit]- The Romantic Ideology: A Critical Investigation (1983)[10]
- A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism (1983)
- The Beauty of Inflections: Literary Investigations in Historical Method and Theory (1985)
- The Textual Condition (1991)
- Radiant Textuality: Literature Since the World Wide Web (2001)
- Byron and Romanticism (2002)
- A New Republic of Letters: Memory and Scholarship in the Age of Digital Reproduction' (2014)
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Jerome McGann: Vita". iath.virginia.edu. 6 September 2008. Archived from the original on 22 April 2009. Retrieved 30 May 2025.
- ↑ "McGann, Jerome J. | Princeton University Press". press.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2026-05-31.
- ↑ "Nineteenth-Century Digital Worlds: Hilary Fraser Interviews Jerome McGann". 19.bbk.ac.uk. Retrieved 2026-05-31.
- ↑ "NEH Award FA-11988-77, Jerome J. McGann". awardsearch.neh.gov. Retrieved 2026-05-31.
- ↑ Jerome McGann Homepage at the University of Virginia
- ↑ "Jerome McGann - CRASSH". CRASSH - Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities. 2014-07-30. Retrieved 2026-05-31.
- ↑ "Transliteracies » Research Project". Retrieved 2026-05-31.
- ↑ Cunningham Galey Nelson Schofield Werstine Siemens. "Beyond Accessibility: Textual Studies in the 21st Century". socrates.acadiau.ca. Retrieved 2026-05-31.
- ↑ "Syracuse Herald-Journal (Sunday, February 7, 1960) - Syracuse, New York | Page 19 archive". Newspapers.com. 1960-02-07. Retrieved 2026-05-31.
- ↑ Spiegelman, Willard (2014-12-07). "Book Review: 'The Poet Edgar Allan Poe' by Jerome McGann". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2026-05-31.
