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picture of me in my office Associate Professor of English; Ph.D. degree from Brown University in American Civilization; Specialist in romantic American literature and culture with teaching interests in the relations between art and literature, science and literature and other interdisciplinary connections; author of Dark Eden: The Swamp in 19th Century American Culture (Cambridge University Press, 1989) and editor of American Iconology: New Approaches to Art and Literature (Yale University Press, 1993) as well as articles and reviews; currently completing "Beyond the Sister Arts Idea: Image and Text in 19th Century New England" (book-length project).
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