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Leonard Tennenhouse

Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Modern Culture & Media; Director of Graduate Studies

Office: 70 Brown St., Rm. 220
Phone: (401) 863-3732

Courses '07-'08
  Sem I:
 ENGL 1360Q - S01: Tragic Transformations
  Sem II:
 ENGL 2560P - S01: The Rise of the American Novel

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Degrees
Ph.D. University of Rochester, 1970
B.A. Wayne State University, 1965

Research Interests
17th and 18th century literatures and cultures in English, transatlantic literary relations, colonial literatures of the Americas

Professional Accomplishments
The author of The Importance of Feeling English: American Literature and the British Diaspora, 1750-1850 (2007), The Politics of Shakespeare's Genres (1986), and with Nancy Armstrong, The Imaginary Puritan (1992), he is editing a special double issue of NOVEL on the early American novel (forthcoming 2007-8). He has edited with Nancy Armstrong, two collections of critical essays, The Violence of Representation: Studies in Literature and the History of Violence (1989) and The Ideology of Conduct: Essays on Literature and the History of Sexuality (1987); with Philip Gould, a special issue of the journal differences titled America the Feminine (2000).   He has also published numerous articles on 16th, 17th, and 18th century literatures and cultures in English.