James Buzard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Literature
Professor
Cambridge, Massachusetts
jmbuzard@mit.edu
Office:
(617) 253-7649
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Bio/Research
James Buzard (Professor and Head of Literature Faculty) works on 19th- and early 20th-century British literature and culture, with particular interest in the Victorian novel (Dickens, George Eliot, the Brontës, and others), modernism, the history of travel, and theories of culture and society. In...
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Bio/Research
James Buzard (Professor and Head of Literature Faculty) works on 19th- and early 20th-century British literature and culture, with particular interest in the Victorian novel (Dickens, George Eliot, the Brontës, and others), modernism, the history of travel, and theories of culture and society. In addition to teaching on these topics, he enjoys teaching "great books" surveys such as Foundations of Western Culture: Homer to Dante and Forms of Western Narrative. He is the author of The Beaten Track: European Tourism, Literature, and the Ways to "Culture," 1800-1918 (Oxford 1993) and Disorienting Fiction: The Autoethnographic Work of Nineteenth-Century British Novels (Princeton 2005), as well as of numerous articles in journals and books. He is also a contributing editor of Victorian Prism: Refractions of the Crystal Palace (Virginia 2007), a collection of essays on the impact of the Great Exhibition of 1851. An avid fan of Flanders & Swann, African popular music, and virtually any movie in black and white, he has a peculiar fascination with revolving doors.
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