About
Stuart Burrows is an Associate Professor of English at Brown University specializing in 19th- and 20th-century American literature, literary theory, photography, and film studies. He holds a PhD from Princeton University (2001), an MA from Northeastern University (1994), and a BA from the University of Southampton (1989). His research examines intersections between visual culture and narrative form, particularly in works by Henry James, Herman Melville, and W.G. Sebald.
Key publications include A Familiar Strangeness: American Fiction and the Language of Photography (2008) and Henry James and the Promise of Fiction (2023). Current projects explore 19th-century conceptions of personhood and a study of avant-garde cinema directors. Burrows teaches courses on modern poetry, American realism, film theory, and literary modernism.
Active in professional organizations such as the Modern Language Association and Henry James Society, his scholarship appears in American Literary History, Nineteenth-Century Literature, and The Henry James Review. His work bridges literary analysis with interdisciplinary approaches to visual culture and moral philosophy.
