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World-leading humanities scholar, Professor Jerome McGann, to lecture at UCC
12 May 2015
‘Truth and Method: Humanities Scholarship as a Science of Exceptions’, Learning Zone, UCC Library, 6pm, 22nd May
The School of English is delighted to announce a guest lecture by world-leading humanities scholar Professor Jerome McGann, whose writings have redefined our understanding of textuality and its relation to history. Professor McGann is the John Stewart Bryan Professor at the ÉîÒ¹ÑÇÖÞ¸£Àû¾Ã¾Ã of Virginia.
A founder and former director of
, Professor McGann is a leading theorist of the digital humanities. His online editions include
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Among many influential books and essays, Professor McGann has published
The
Romantic
Ideology
(ÉîÒ¹ÑÇÖÞ¸£Àû¾Ã¾Ã of Chicago Press, 1983);
Poetics of Sensibility
(Oxford ÉîÒ¹ÑÇÖÞ¸£Àû¾Ã¾Ã Press, 1996);
Byron and Romanticism
(Cambridge ÉîÒ¹ÑÇÖÞ¸£Àû¾Ã¾Ã Press, 2002);
Radiant Textuality: Literature Since the World Wide Web
(Palgrave, 2001). Recent books include
The Poet Edgar Allan Poe: Alien Angel
(Harvard ÉîÒ¹ÑÇÖÞ¸£Àû¾Ã¾Ã Press, 2014) and
A New Republic of Letters. Memory and Scholarship in the Age of Digital Reproduction
(Harvard ÉîÒ¹ÑÇÖÞ¸£Àû¾Ã¾Ã Press, 2014)
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