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Marshall Brown
Professor of Comparative Literature
Areas of Study: 18th and 19th century literature, theory and criticism, music and literature
Education: Ph.D. Yale University
Marshall Brown has written four books on European literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with special emphasis on the intersection of form with literary and cultural history. He also works on music and literature and is currently revising a collection of previously published and new studies entitled 'The Tooth that Nibbles at the Soul': Essays on Music and Poetry. A future project, and the focus of much of his current teaching, will be a study of formal issues in the nineteenth-century novel. As editor since 1991 of Modern Language Quarterly: A Journal of Literary History, he has promoted new directions in the study of literary history. Four collections from the journal have appeared in book form, most recently Reading for Form from the University of Washington Press. Prof. Brown has also edited the Romanticism volume of the Cambridge History of Literary Criticism and has translated (with Jane K. Brown) The Linguistics of Lying and Other Essays by Harald Weinrich. He has served on numerous editorial boards and MLA division executive committees and has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Rockefeller Foundation.
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