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James Engell is the Gurney Research Professor of English and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University, holding dual appointments in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He is also affiliated with the Committee on the Study of Religion and the Harvard University Center for the Environment. Engell retired on June 30, 2024, and no longer sponsors students or visiting scholars. His education includes a B.A. (1973) and Ph.D. (1978) from Harvard University.
Engell’s research focuses on Romantic, Eighteenth-Century, and Restoration British Literature, Comparative Romanticism, literary criticism, rhetoric, environmental studies, and the economics of higher education. His work bridges interdisciplinary fields, such as ecocriticism and the history of academic institutions.
Engell has authored or edited influential works including The Call of Classical Literature in the Romantic Age (2017), William Wordsworth's Prelude (2016), and Environment: An Interdisciplinary Anthology (2008). His scholarship emphasizes classical influences on Romantic literature, environmental humanities, and challenges facing modern academia.
As an emeritus faculty member, Engell remains connected to Harvard’s Barker Center, where he previously advised dissertations in American Studies and Romance Languages & Literatures. His career has spanned four decades, leaving a legacy in literary studies and interdisciplinary academic advocacy.
