James Chandler (academic)

James Chandler (born January 17, 1948[1]) is the director of the Franke Institute for the Humanities and holds the Barbara E. & Richard J. Franke Professorship in English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago.[2] He was previously the George M. Pullman Professor in English Language & Literature at the same institution.[3]

For the Canadian judge and politician, see James Watson Chandler. For the American Medal of Honor recipient, see James B. Chandler. For the American architect, see James Gilbert Chandler.

Chandler is the author of three books on English Romanticism: Wordsworth's Second Nature (1984[4]), England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism, which won the 2000 Gordon J. Laing Award for distinction in academic publishing,[3] and An Archeology of Sympathy: The Sentimental Mode in Literature and Cinema (2013), which examines continuities between the Romantic culture of sentiment and twentieth-century film.

References
  1. "James Chandler". Contemporary Authors Online. December 12, 2006. Retrieved on December 20, 2010.
  2. "James Chandler". University of Chicago. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  3. Fournier, Arthur (26 April 2001). "Chandler wins 2000 Laing Award". University of Chicago Chronicle. Vol. 20, no. 15. University of Chicago. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  4. Wordsworth's Second Nature. University of Chicago Press.


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