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James Egan

Associate Professor of English

Office: 70 Brown St., Rm. 201
Phone: (401) 863-3737

Courses '09-'10
  Sem I:
  •   ENGL1190K - S01: Literary Biography -- CRN15564
  •   ENGL1310B - S01: The Lives of a Text -- CRN14941
  Sem II:
  •  ENGL 0450E - S01: Inventing America -- CRN 25579
  •  ENGL 1310H - S01: The Origins of American Literature -- CRN 24996

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Degrees
Ph.D. UC Santa Barbara 1991
M.A. San Francisco State University 1985
B.A. UC Santa Cruz 1983

Research Interests
17th and 18th century British-American writing; history of the book. Early modern Atlantic world; colonial British-American Orientalism; early modern theories of identity.

Professional Accomplishments
Professor Egan has published Authorizing Experience: Refigurations of the Body Politic in Seventeenth-Century New England Writing with Princeton University Press in 1999. His other writings include essays on such topics and writers as Ebenezer Cooke, 18th century Transatlantic mercantile poetry, and Benjamin Franklin.