Grant F. Scott

Chair of the Department of English

Tel: 484-664-3314
Fax: 484-664-3633
Office: Center for the Arts 277
Email: scott@muhlenberg.edu

Education

1989: PhD, English Literature, UCLA
1986: MA, English Literature, UCLA
1983: BA, Summa Cum Laude, English and American Literature, UCSD.

Select Awards, Publications and Presentations:

Robert C. Williams Prize for Junior Faculty, 1995
Donald B. Hoffman Research Fellowship, 2004-05

Co-Editor, New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn (Romantic Circles Electronic Editions, University of Maryland, December 2007).
http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/brownsevern/

Editor, Joseph Severn: Letters and Memoirs (Ashgate, 2005).

Editor, Selected Letters of John Keats (Harvard UP, 2002).

The Sculpted Word: Keats, Ekphrasis, and the Visual Arts (UP of New England, 1994).

Exhibition Catalog: “Wings of Fire: The Illuminated Books of William Blake.”
Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, March 19-April 19, 2008.

“Discomfortably Yours: An Interview with Jonathan Franzen.” Muhlenberg Magazine
17 (Summer 2007): 12-13, 30.

“New Mary Shelley Letters to the Severns.” Keats-Shelley Journal 54 (2005): 62-77.

“After Keats: The Return of Joseph Severn to England in 1838,” Romanticism on the Net
40 (November 2005).
http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/2005/v/n40/012458ar.html

“Dead Poets Society.” The Guardian Review (London). April 16, 2005: 37.

“Severn Redivivus.” TLS (Times Literary Supplement). Commentary. March 18, 2005: 13.

“Language Strange: A Visual History of Keats’s ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci.’”
Studies in Romanticism 38 (Winter 1999): 503-35.

Teaching

Dr. Scott’s primary field is nineteenth-century British Literature – English Romanticism and Victorian Literature and Culture – but he has also taught courses in Literature and Film, Modern American Literature, Shakespeare and the English Novel. Senior seminar topics include Keats, the Blake Gallery, the Decadent 1890s in England and Literary and Visual Representations of the Apocalypse. First Year Seminar topics range from Literature and the Visual Arts to Literary Representations of the Vietnam War.