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Paul Saint-Amour is the Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, where he will serve as Interim Chair of the Department of English (2025–2026). He is also an affiliated member of the Program in Comparative Literature & Literary Theory.
Education:
- B.A., Yale University
- Ph.D., Stanford University
Research Interests:
Saint-Amour’s scholarship ranges across Victorian and modernist British literature, focusing on the novel, law, trauma, visual culture, sound studies, and the environmental humanities. His work interrogates how cultural forms mediate legal and historical experience, from intellectual-property regimes to the anticipatory trauma of total war.
His recent articles (2018–2024) extend these concerns into weak theory, counterfactual futures, environmental grief, and media meso-analysis, demonstrating a consistent effort to theorize modernist aesthetics at multiple scales—temporal, juridical, ecological, and technological.
Scientific Awards & Honors:
- MLA Prize for a First Book (2003)
- Modernist Studies Association Book Prize (2015)
- Matei Calinescu Prize, Modern Language Association (2015)
- Guggenheim Fellowship (2022)
- Provost’s Award for Outstanding Mentorship of Ph.D. Students (2023)
- Best Advisor Award, English Undergraduate Advisory Board (2015)
Doctoral Advising & Grants:
Saint-Amour has chaired eight doctoral dissertations since 2013, with topics spanning Iraqi fiction and international law, Holocaust poetry, deep time, postwar institutions, utopian modernism, nuclear apocalypse, self-help hermeneutics, and transnational aestheticism. Active mentorship earned him the 2023 Provost’s Award and the 2015 Best Advisor Award.
Editorial & Professional Service:
He co-edits the Modernist Latitudes book series at Columbia University Press with Jessica Berman, has chaired the faculty editorial board of the University of Pennsylvania Press, served on the editorial board of PMLA, and is a trustee of the English Institute and former president of the Modernist Studies Association.
