Department of English
Department of English
jerome_mcgann

Jerome McGann

Professor Emeritus
jmcgann@virginia.edu
Specialties
19th C American, 19th C British, 20th C American, 20th C British, Bibliography, Book History & Culture, Digital Humanities, Romanticism, Textual Studies

Degrees

Ph.D. Yale, 1966
M.A. Syracuse, 1962
B.S. LeMoyne, 1959

Books

Transubstantiations. Poetry and Verse.  (Barrytown NY: Station Hill Press, 2024) 

Byron and the Poetics of Adversity (Cambridge University Press, 2023) 

Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes: The Unsettled Records of American Settlement (U. Of Chicago Press, 2022) 

Children’s Ours of a Certain Age. (Since: Charlottesville, 2020) 

The Poet Edgar Allan Poe: Alien Angel. (Harvard University Press, 2014) 

A New Republic of Letters: Humanities Scholarship in an Age of Digital Reproduction. (Harvard University Press, 2014) 

The Invention Tree (Tuscon: Chax Press, 2012) 

Are the Humanities Inconsequent? (Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, U. of Chicago Press), 2009)  

The Broadview Anthology of British Literature. 6 Vols. (Broadview, 2009-present) 

Byron's Manfred. with drawings by Virgil Burnett. (Stratford, Ontario: Pasdeloup Press, 2009) 

The Point is to Change It. Poetry and Criticism in the Continuing Present. (Tuscaloosa: U. of Alabama Press, 2007) 

The Scholar's Art. Literary Studies in a Managed World. (U. of Chicago Press, 2006) 

Radiant Textuality  (New York: Palgrave/St. Martins, 2004) 

Thomas Lovell Beddoes's Death's Jest Book. A Stage Version. (Belper, Derbyshire: The Thomas Lovell Beddoes Society, 2003) 

Byron and Romanticism (Cambridge University Press, 2002) 

Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Game that Must be Lost (Yale University Press, 2000) 

Byron and Wordsworth. (Nottingham: University Of Nottingham, 1999) 

Poetics of Sensibility. A Revolution in Literary Style. (Oxford University Press, 1998); second Edition, with “Introduction” by Jeffrey Robinson: Barrytown NY, Staton Hill Press, 2024) 

Four Last Poems (Stratford, Ontario: Pasdeloup Press, 1996) 

Black Riders, The Visible Language of Modernism (Princeton University Press, 1993) 

The New Oxford Book of Romantic Period Verse, Oxford University Press, 1993 

The Textual Condition (Princeton University Press, 1991) 

Towards a Literature of Knowledge (Oxford University Press and University of Chicago Press, 1989) 

The Beauty of Inflections (Clarendon Press, 1988) 

Social Values and Poetic Acts (Harvard University Press, 1988) 

The Romantic Ideology (University of Chicago Press, 1983) 

A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism.  (U. of Chicago Press, 1983; reprinted, with a “Foreword” by David Greetham: University of Virginia Press, 1992) 

Nerves in Patterns [poems, with James Kahn] (X Press, 1979) 

Writing Home [poems, with Janet Kauffma) . (Coldwater Press, 1978) 

Air Heart Sermons (Pasdeloup Press, 1976) 

Don Juan in Context, U. of Chicago Press and John Murrasy Ltd, 1976) 

Swinburne. An Experiment in Criticism (U. of Chicago Press, 1972) 

Fiery Dust. Byron’s Poetic Development (U. of Chicago Press, 1968) 

 

Edited Works [print and digital] 

  • Old Time Stories by Jaime de Angulo (forthcoming 2025, U. of Chicago Press) 

  • Martin Delany. Blake; or The Huts of America, ed. with Introduction and Notes (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2017).  

  • Poe and the Remapping of Antebellum Print Culture, ed. with J. Gerald Kennedy (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2012) 

  • Online Humanities Scholarship. The Shape of Things to Come (Houston: Rice University Press, 2010) 

  • Stephen Crane. The Black Riders and Other Lines, (a facsimile edition with associated materials). (Houston: Rice University Press, 2009) 

  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti: The Collected Works, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003 

  • Letitia Elizabeth Landon: Selected Writings, ed. with Daniel Riess. (Peterborough: Broadview Press, 1997) 

  • The New Oxford Book of Romantic Period Verse. (Oxford, 1993). 

  • Postmodern Poetries. (Special Issue of Verse Vol. 7 no. 1, Spring 1990). 

  • Victorian Connections . (U. Press of Virginia, 1989) 

  • The Oxford Authors Byron .(Clarendon Press, 1986) 

  • Historical Studies and Literary Criticism . (U. of Wisconsin Press, 1986) 

  • The Manuscripts of the Younger Romantics: Byron, ed. With Alice Levine Vol. I (1985); Vol. II (1986); Vols. III and IV (1988) (New York: Garland Publications) 

  • Textual Studies and Literary Interpretation.  (University of Chicago Press, 1985). 

  • Lord Byron: The Complete Poetical Works (Clarendon Press: Oxford, 1980-1992. 7 Vols.  

  • Pelham; or the Adventures of a Gentleman, by Edward Bulwer Lytton (U. of Nebraska Press, 1972) 

 

Essays [print] 

  • “Arthur Kennickell and the Creatures of Lucifer.  In Arthur B. Kennickell, The Art Goes Without Saying. Selected Creatures 1967-2024. (Washington DC: The Shod Pegasus Press, 2024): 331-337. 

  • “Reading (I Mean Articulating) Poetry, A Multiplayer Game.”  In Soundings in Context. Poetry’s Embodiments, ed.  Judith Goldman and James Maynard (Albany NY: SUNY Press, 2024): 19-47. 

  • “Jeffrey Herrick’s Verse, Compositions of the Flying Hand.”  In Jeffrey Herrick, Almost. Thence. Sum. (Barrytown NY: Station Hill Press,2023): 166-179. 

  • “Forward”.  In Zero Point Poiesis.  George Quasha’s Axial Art, Burt Kimmelman, ed.  (Aporeia: New York, 1922): 9-12. 

  • “Editing and Curating Online. Beginning Again,” Textual Cultures 15. 1 (2022): 53-62. 

  • “I monaci e i giganti. Gli studi filologici e bibliografici e l'interpretazione della letteratura,  In Gli orizzonti dell'ecdotica. Autori, testi, lettori, a cura di Francisco Rico.  (Roma, Carocci, 2022):  147-169. 

  • “The Composition and Meaning of Swinburne's ‘Anactoria’.”  In Poetry in the Making.  Creativity and Composition in Victorian Poetic Drafts, ed. Daniel Tyler (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2021): 189-212. 

  • “Jaime de Angulo, Modernity, and the Living Voice.” Chicago Review, Vol. 64 1/3, JAIME DE ANGULO, GUI MAYO & WEST COAST MODERNISM (2021):71-85. 

  • “Emily Dickinson’s Forbidding Books.” Studies in Romanticism 60, no. 4 (2021): 523-532. 

  • “Afterword: Interpretation in a New Key.” In Marta Werner, Writing in Time: Emily Dickinson’s Master Hours. Amherst College Press, 2021: 114-121. 

  • "Suffering, Sacred, or Free: Romantic Revolutions of the Word, with Special Reference to Byron." Studies in Romanticism 60. 2 (2021): 175-203. 

  • “‘Christian Charity’, A Sacred American Text: Fact, Truth, Method." Textual Cultures: Texts, Contexts, Interpretation 12. 1 ( 2019): 27-52.  

  • “Colonial Exceptionalism on Native Grounds: American Literature before American Literature,” Critical Inquiry 45. 3 (2019): 640-658. 

  • "The Great Final Hash of Moby-Dick." Leviathan 21. 2 (2019): 43-67. 

  • “Composition as Explanation of Moby-Dick.” Book History 21 (2018): 125–49. 

  • “Romantic Subjects and Iambic Laws: Episodes in the Early History of Contract Negotiations.” New Literary History .49 4 (2018): 597–615. 

  • "Response", in "A Roundtable of Reviews of Blake: A Corrected Edition", American Periodicals. A Journal of History and Criticism 28. 1 (2018): 86-89." 

  • “Structure and Style in the Greater Byronic Lyric.” in Essays on Byron in Honour of Dr Peter Cochran: Breaking the Mould. Ed. Malcolm Kelsall, Peter Graham and Mirka Horová (Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2018): : 2-16.   

  • "Blake and Byron; or, Art and Imagination after the Second Fall", Christianity and Literature 66. 4 (2017): 609-630. 

  • “Indian Treaties and American Exceptionalism: Prolegomena to a Study of American Ideology”, Paideuma 44 (2017): 147-169. 

  • "Rethinking Delany's Blake", Callaloo 39. 1 (Winter 2016): 80-97. 

  • "Exceptional Measures. The Human Sciences in STEM Worlds," Scholarly Editing 37 (2016): 1-22 

  • "Memory, Meaning, Scholarship: The Buildings of Loss," The Journal of English Language and Literature, English Language and Literature Association of Korea 62. 1 (March 2016): 3-16. 

  • “The Poverty of Theory; or, The Education of Jerome McGann,” Theory Development in the Human Sciences, ed. Diane H. Sonnenwald (U. of Texas Press: Austin, TX, 2016): 241-263. 

  • “Marking Texts in Many Dimensions, A New Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth (Wiley Blackwell: Malden MA, 2016): 358-376. 

  • "Truth and Method. Humanities Scholarship as a Science of Exceptions", Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 40. 2 (2015): 204-218 

  • "Tre Tipi di Ragione Romantica: Blake, Wordsworth, Byron", in C'Ã del metodo in questa follia. L'irrazionale nella litteratura romantica a cura Paolo Tortonese. trans. Carmen Gallo (Associacione Sigismondo Malatesta: Pacini Editore, Pisa, 2015): 111-125 

  • "Jerome McGann on Editing", in Editors Talk About Editing. Insights for Readers, Writers, and Publishers, ed. Susan L. Greenberg (New York, Bern, etc: Peter Lang, 2015): 53-71 

  • "Reflections on Textual and Documentary Media in a Romantic and Post-Romantic Horizon", Studies in Romanticism 53. 4 (Winter 2014): 481-507 

  • "Memory Now", Tipofilologia 7 (2015): 11-27 

  • "'The Bells', Performance, and the Politics of Poetry", The Edgar Allan Poe Review 15. 1 (Spring, 2014): 47-58 

  • "Fundamental Brainwork: Rossetti Among the Printers", in The History and Future of the Nineteenth-Century Book, ed. Maria Schoina and Andrew Stauffer, Special Issue of Gramma 21 (2013): 27-49 

  • "The Last Detachment: Byron Awakening and the Dream of Greece", in The Place of Lord Byron in World History, ed. Nick Panagopoulas and Maria and Maria Schoina, with a Foreward by Peter W. Graham (The Edwin Mellen Press: Lewiston, Queenston, Lampeter, 2013): 143-151. 

  • "Poe. The Politics of a Poetry without Politics, Part II", Literature Compass 10. 11 (4 Nov. 2013): 885-894 

  • "Poe. The Politics of a Poetry without Politics, Part I", Literature Compass 10. 11 (4 Nov. 2013): 871-884" 

  • "American Memory in Black Elk Speaks", New Literary History 44. 3 (Summer 2013): 401-424. 

  • "Coda: Why Digital Textual Scholarship Matters; or, Philology in a New Key, Practice and Theory", in the The Cambridge Companion to Textual Scholarship, ed. Neil Fraistat and Julia Flanders (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2013): 274-288. 

  • "Philology in a New Key", Critical Inquiry 39.2 (2013): 327-346 

  • "Poe, Decentered Culture, and Critical Method", in Poe and the Remapping of Antebellum Print Culture, ed. J. Gerald Kennedy and Jerome McGann. LSU Press: Baton Rouge LA, 2012: 245-259. 

  • "Femina Ludens; or, The Book of Johanna Drucker," Druckworks: 40 Years of Books and Projects by Johanna Drucker (Columbia College Press: Chicago, 2012) 

  • "The Poetry of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)", in The Cambridge Companion to the Pre-Raphaelites, ed. Elizabeth Prettejohn Cambridge UP: Cambridge, 2012: 89-102. 

  • "Innovation and Experiment [in Victorian Literature]", The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature, ed. Kate Flint. Cambridge UP: Cambridge, 2012: 288-312. 

  • "Washington Irving, A History of New York, and American History," Early American Literature 47.2 (2012): 349-376. 

  • "Fenimore Cooper's Anti-aesthetic and the Representation of Conflicted History", Modern Language Quarterly 73.2 (June 2012): 123-156. 

  • "On Creating a Usable Future", Profession 2011: 182-195. 

  • Epilogue: A Memorable Fancy", in Blake in Our Time. Essays in Honour of G. E. Bentley Jr., ed. Karen Mulhallen. U. of Toronto Press: Toronto, 2010: 262-264. 

  • "Recitation Considered as a Fine Art," Experimental Literary Education, English Language Notes 47. 1 (Spring/Summer 2009): 181-183 

  • "Literary History and Editorial Method; Poe and Antebellum America", New Literary History 40. 4 (Autumn 2009): 825-842. 

  • "Literature by Design Since 1790", Victorian Poetry 48. 1 (Spring 2010): 11-40. 

  • "Wagner, Baudelaire, Swinburne. Poetry in the Condition of Music", in the Centenary Swinburne Issue of Victorian Poetry 47.4 (Winter 2009): 619-632. 

  • "Humane Studies in Digital Space", in Teaching Literature and Language Online, ed. Ian Lancashire MLA: New York, 2009): 89-103. 

  • "Our Textual History", Times Literary Supplement No. 5564 (20 November 2009): 13-15. 

  • "Is Romanticism Finished?", The Cambridge History of English Romantic Literature, ed. James Chandler. Cambridge UP: Cambridge, 2009: 648-664. 

  • "Pseudodoxia Academica," Literary History in the Global Age, New Literary History 39.3 (Summer 2008): 645-656. 

  • "Eunoia: Beauty or Truth (or What?)," The Antioch Review 67.1 (Winter 2009): 138-157. 

  • "Laura Riding Jackson and Unabashed Storifying; or, The Story of Queen Story," Imagining Selves. Essays in Honor of Patricia Meyer Spacks, ed. Rivka Swenson and Elise Lauterbach. U. of Delaware Press: Newark, 2008: 266-286. 

  • "The Life of the Dead. Laura Riding and the History of Twentieth-century Poetry", Authority Matters. Rethinking the Theory and Practice of Authorship, ed. Stephen Donovan et al. Rodopi: Amsterdam and New York, 2008: 121-140. 

  • "Swinburne, 'Hertha', and the Voice of Language", Victorian Literature and Culture 36.2 (2008): 283-297. 

  • Death's Jest Book on Stage in 2003", in The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Lovell Beddoes, ed. Ute Berns and Michael Bradshaw (Ashgate: Aldershot, 2007): 241-243. 

  • “Database, Interface, and Archival Fever", PMLA 122.5 (October 2007): 1588-1592. 

  • "Interpretation", in Introduction to Scholarship in Modern Languages and Literature, third edition, ed. David Nicholl. Modern Language Assoc. of America: New York, 2007): 160-170. 

  • "Byron, George Gordon, Lord", The Oxford Dictiionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2007). 

  • "Reading Lines Forum" [by various hands], Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, 8/9 (Spring-Fall 2006): 135-137 

  • "High Instincts and Real Presences: Two Romantic Responses to the Death of Beauty," in Repossessing the Romantic Past, ed. Heather Glen and Paul Hamilton. Cambridge UP: Cambridge, 2006: 226-243. 

  • "Looney Tunes and Unheard Melodies: An Oulipian Colonescapade with a Critique of 'The Great-Ape Love-Song Corpus' and its Lexicon", Descant 133 (Summer 2006): 111-130. 

  • “'The Grand Heretics of Modern Fiction': Laura Riding, John Cowper Powys, and the Subjective Correlative," Modernism/Modernity 13. 2 (April 2006): 309-324. 

  • (with Dino Buzzetti),"Critical Editing in a Digital Horizon", in Electronic Textual Editing, eds. Burnard, O'Keeffe, and Unsworth (MLA: New York, 2006): 53-73 

  • "From Text to Work. Digital Tools and the Emergence of the Social Text," in Variants 4. The Book as Artifact Text and Border, ed. Anne Mette Hensen, Roger Ludeke, Wolfgang Streit, Cristina Urchueguia, and Peter Shillingsburg, The Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship (2005): 225-240 (two other versions of this essay have been published in: Romanticism on the Net 41-42 (Feb. - May 2006); and in Text 16 (2006): 49-62). 

  • Culture and Technology: The Way We Live Now, What is to be Done?", New Literary History 36 (Winter 2005): 71-82. 

  • "Marking Texts in Many Dimensions," in A Companion to Digital Humanities, eds. Schreibman, Siemens, and Unsworth (Blackwell: Oxford, 2004): 198-217.) 

  • "Modernity and Complicity: A Dialogue" (with Johanna Drucker), in Textual Practice 18.2 (2004): 207-219. 

  • "Walter Scott's Romantic Postmodernity in Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism, ed. Leith Davis, Ian Duncan, and Janet Sorensen. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2004: 113-129 

  • "Beauty, the Irreal, and the Willing Assumption of Disbelief," Critical Inquiry 30 (Summer 2004): 717-738. 

  • "Texts in N-Dimensions and Interpretation in a New Key," Text Technology (Special Issue devoted to IVANHOE) 12.2 (2003): 1-18. 

  • "Swinburne's Radical Artifice; or, The Comedian as A. C.," Modernism/Modernity 11.2 (April 2004): 205-218. 

  • "DG Rossetti and the Art of the Inner Standing-Point", in Outsiders Looking In. The Rossettis then and now, ed. David Clifford and Laurence Roussillon (Anthem Press: London, 2004): 171-187. 

  • "Phases of English Romanticism", in English Romantic Poetry , ed. Harold Bloom (Chelsea House: Philadelphia, 2004): 117-128. 

  • "A Note on the Current State of Humanities Scholarship," The Future of Criticism -- A Critical Inquiry Symposium , Critical Inquiry 30. 2 (Winter 2004), 409-413. 

  • "Textonics: Literary and Cultural Studies in a Quantum World", in The Culture of Collected Editions, ed. Anrew Nash (Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, 2003): 245-260. 

  • “Byron’s Lyric Poetry.”  In The Cambridge Companion to Byron, ed Drummond Bone. Second Edition (Cambridge UP: Cambridge, 2023 [2003]): 228-242. 

  • “Introduction [to the Sculptures of Virgil Burnett]”. Virgil Burnett, Heroides. (Stratford, Ontario; Pasdeloup Press, 2003): [1-2]. 

  • "Herbert Horne's Diversi Colores (1891): Incarnating the Religion of Beauty," New Literary History 34.3 (Summer 2003), 535-554. 

  • "Romantic Scholarship and Culture 1960-2001: A Byronic View," Byron and Greece, ed. Byron Raizis. Byron Society of Missolonghi: Athens, 2003, 4-23. 

  • "Literary Scholarship and the Digital Future," The Chronicle Review [The Chronicle of Higher Education Section 2] (December 13, 2002), B7-B9. 

  • "The Gutenberg Variations", TEXT 14 (2002), 1-14; RBM 3.1 (Spring 2002), 15-31. 

  • "Reading Fiction/Teaching Fiction. A Pedagogical Experiment," Pedagogy I. 1 (Winter 2001), 143-165. 

  • "Fundamental Brainwork", London Review of Books 22 (30 March 2000), 24-26. 

  • "A Commentary on Some of Rossetti's Translation from Dante," The Journal or PreRaphaelite Studies, NS 9 (Spring 2000), 25-38. 

  • "Composition as Explanation (of Modern and PostModern Poetries)," in A Book of the Book, ed. Jerome Rothenberg and Steven Clay (Granary Books: New York, 2000), 228-245. 

  • "What is Text?", in Marking the Text. The Presentation of Meaning on the Digital Page, ed, Joe Bray, Miriam Handley, Anne C. Henry (Ashgate: Aldershot, 2000), 329-334. 

  • "The Life of the Dead: Laura Riding and the History of 20th Century Poetry," Twentieth Century American Literature after Midcentury. International Conference Proceedings, Kyiv, 25-27 May 1999. (Dovira: Kyiv, 2000), 190-207. 

  • "Rossetti Degree Zero," Athena's Shuttle: Myth Religion Ideology from Romanticism to Modernism, ed. Franco Marucci and Emma Sdegno (Cisalpino Istituto Editoriale Universitario: Milano, 2000), 11-29. 

  • "Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Embodiment of Knowledge". The Harold Jantz Memorial Lecture, 1998 (Oberlin College, 1999). 

  • (with Lisa Samuels), "Deformance and Interpretation," New Literary History 30 (Winter, 1999), 25-56. 

  • Hideous Progeny, Rough Beasts: Editing as a Theoretical Pursuit," TEXT XI (1998-1999): 1-16. 

  • "Dante and Rossetti: Translation, Pastiche, Ritual, Fate." The Hilda Hulme Lecture . (School of Advanced Study, U. of London, 1998). 

  • "Rossetti's Iconic Page", in The Iconic Page in Manuscript, Print, and Digital Culture, ed. George Bornstein and Theresa Tinkle (Ann Arbor: U. of Michigan Press, 1998): 123-140. 

  • "The Failures of Romanticism", in Romanticism, History, and the Possibilities of Genre, ed. Tilottama Rajan and Julia M. Wright (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998): 270-286. 

  • "The Rationale of Hypertext," in Electronic Text, Investigations in Method and Theory, ed. Katheryn Sutherland (Oxford UP, 1997):19-46. 

  • "Art and Error: With Special Reference to the Poetry of Robert Duncan," Modern Language Studies (Special Issue on "The Problem of Beauty", ed. Lisa Samuels) 17 no.2 (Summer 1997), 9-22.  

  • “The Rossetti Archive and Image-Based Electronic Editing.” In The Literary Text in. the Digital Age, ed Richard Finneran (Ann Arbor: U. of Michigan Press, 1996): 145-184. 

  • "The Alice Fallacy; or, Reptiles of the Mind. A Dialogue of Pleasure and Instruction," Chain 3. 2 (Summer 1996): 108-134. 

  • "Medieval v. Victorian v. Modern: D. G. Rossetti's Art of Images,” Modernism/Modernity 2 (Jan. 1995), 97-112. 

  •  "Marvels and wonders: Powys, Porius and the Attempt to Revive Romance in the Age of Modernism," Times Literary Supplement, 4835 (1 December 1995,): 4-5.  

  • "Canonade," New Literary History 25 (Summer, 1994), 487-504. 

  • "A Thing to Mind": The Materialist Aesthetic of William Morris,” Huntington Library Quarterly 55. 1 (1992): 55-74. 

  • "Rethinking Romanticism," English Literary History 59. 3 (1992): 735-754. 

  • "Byron and the Anonymous Lyric." The Byron Journal 20 (1992): 27-45. 

  • “Which Yeats Edition?” Times Literary Supplement, (May 11–17, 1990): 493–94. 

  • “Theory of Texts”, London Review of Books 10. 4 (18 February 1988): 20-21. 

  • “Contemporary Poetry, Alternate Routes,” Critical Inquiry 13. 3 (1987): 624-647. 

  • “The Idea of an Indeterminate Text: Blake’s Bible of Hell and Dr. Alexander Geddes.” Studies in Romanticism 25. 3 (1986): 303–24. 

  • “Ulysses as a Postmodern Text,” Criticism 27. 3 (1985): 283-305. 

  • “Some Forms of Critical Discourse,” Critical Inquiry 11.3 (1985): 399-417. 

  • “The Text, the Poem, and the Problem of Historical Method,” New Literary History 12. 2  (1981): 269-288. 

  • “Formalism, Savagery, and Care; or, The Function of Criticism Once Again,” Critical Inquiry 2.3 (1976): 605-630. 

  • "The Correct Text of Don Juan 1.190-198," Times Literary Supplement (13 August 1976): 1015. 

 

Early Essays, 1964-1975  [Selection] 

  • “Staging Byron’s Cain,” Keats-Shelley Memorial Bulletin (1968): 24-27. 

  • “Rossetto’s Significant Details,” Victorian Poetry 7.1 (1969): 41-54. 

  • “Staging The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,” Blake; An Illustrated Quarterly  5.3 (1971-72): 182-183. 

  • “The Beauty of the Medusa. A Study of Romantic Literary Iconology,” Studies in Romanticism  11. 1 (1972):3-25 

  • “The Aim of Blake’s Prophecies and the Uses of Blake Criticism”, in Stuart Curran and Joseph Wittreich, eds., Blake’s Sublime Allegory: Essays on The Four Zoas, Milton, and Jerusalem. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1973:  

  • “Romanticism and the Embarrassments of Critical Tradition.” Modern Philology 70. 3 (1973): 243–57. 

  • “Points of Departure in Recent Poetry.” Chicago Review 27. 1 (1975):161-176. 

 

Online Publications 

 

Interviews [Selections] 

  • “An interview with Jerome McGann on textual scholarship as literary history and ideology critique”. Social Epistemology 1.  2 (1987): 163-173. 

  • Shaw, Philip, Jerome McGann, and Geoff Ward. “Interview with Jerome McGann.” The Cambridge Quarterly 22, no. 4 (1993): 355–69. 

 

Institutional Work 

  • Steering Committee, National Digital Public Library 

  • The Byron Society 

  • The Society for Textual Scholarship 

 

Honors and Appointments 

  • The Thomas Jefferson Award, University of Virginia, 2017 

  • Richard J. Finneran Award, Society for Textual Scholarship: A New Republic of Letters (the Outstanding Book of 2014 devoted to Editorial Theory), 2015 

  • James W. Gargano Award from the Poe Society of America for the outstanding essay on Poe published in 2014 ("'The Bells,' Performance, and the Politics of Poetry"), 2015 

  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences, fellow 

  • American Philosophical Society, fellow 

  • Senior Research Fellow, U. of California, Berkeley 2009-2020 

  • Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, University of Athens, 2009 

  • Co-Founder (with Edward Ayers, Alan Batson, Kendon Stubbs, William Wolf), Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities: (IATH).  University of Virginia, 1993-.  

  • Founder and Project Director: ARP (Applied Research in 'Patacriticism), U. of Virginia, 2003-2005. 

  • ACLS Committee on Cyberinfrastructure, 2004-2006 President, Society for Critical Exchange, 2005-2006 

  • James Russell Lowell Award (from the Modern Language Association) for Radiant Textuality as the Most Distinguished Scholarly Book of the Year, 2002 

  • Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award, 2002 

  • Richard W. Lyman Award for Distinguished Contributions to Humanities Computing, National Humanities Center, 2002 (first award recipient) 

  • Founder and Co-Director: NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship, 2003-2008 

  • Co-Founder (with Johanna Drucker): Speculative Computing Laboratory (SPECLAB) , University of Virginia, 2001-2003 

  • Senior Research Fellow, University College, London University, 2000- 

  • Senior Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, University of London, 1999- 

  • Avalon Visiting Professor, Northwestern U., Fall 1997 

  • Getty Foundation Research Award, 3 years from 1999 

  • Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, University of Chicago, 1996 

  • President, Society for Textual Scholarship, 1995-1997 

  • Beckman Visiting Professor, U. of California/Berkeley, 1994 

  • Wilbur Cross Medal, Yale University Graduate School, 1994 

  • Fellow, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH), 1992-1993; Associate Fellow, 1993- 

  • Distinguished Scholar Award from the Keats-Shelley Association of America, 1989 

  • NEH Fellow, 1975-76, 1987-1989, 2003-2006 

  • Byron Society, Distinguished Scholar Award, 1989 

  • The Alexander Lectures, University of Toronto, Spring 1986: "Adverse Wheels: The Truth Functions of Poetic Discourse" (in part published as Social Values and Poetic Acts). 

  • Melville Cane Award, American Poetry Society, 1973, for Swinburne as "The Year's Best Critical Book about Poetry." 

  • Guggenheim Fellow, 1970-1971, 1976-1977 

  • Fels Foundation Fellow, 1965-1966 American Philosophical Society Fellow, 1967, Summer 

  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fulbright Fellow, 1965-1966