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Philip Gould

Professor of English

Office: 70 Brown St., Rm. 328
Phone: (401) 863-3736

Courses '09-'10
  Sem I:
  •   ENGL 0600D - S01: Mark Twain's America -- CRN 14933
  •   ENGL 2560V - S01: Transatlantic Studies -- CRN 14979
  Sem II:
  •  ENGL 0600K-S01: Fictions and Frauds: Literature and the Historical Imagination -- CRN 24991
  •  ENGL 1560B-S01: Melville -- CRN 24965

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Degrees
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison 1993
M.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison 1988
B.A. Brown University, 1983

Research Interests
Early American Literature, 19th Century American Literature, Transatlantic Studies, the Black Atlantic

Professional Accomplishments
Gould is author of Covenant and Republic: Historical Romance and the Politics of Puritanism (Cambridge University Press, 1996) and Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the 18th Century Atlantic World (Harvard University Press, 2003). He co-edited Genius in Bondage: The Literature of the 18th Century Black Atlantic (University of Kentucky Press, 2001) and The Cambridge Companion to 19th Century American Women's Writing (Cambridge University Press, 2001). He recently has published essays in Eighteenth-Century Studies and the Cambridge History of African American Literature. He served as President of the Society of Early Americanists.