James Chandler (born January 17, 1948) is the director of the
Franke Institute for the Humanities and holds the Barbara E. & Richard J. Franke Professorship in English Language and Literature at the
University of Chicago. He was previously the George M. Pullman Professor in English Language & Literature at the same institution.
Chandler is the author of three books on English
Romanticism: ''Wordsworth's Second Nature'' (1984
), ''England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism'', which won the 2000
Gordon J. Laing Award
The Gordon J. Laing Award is conferred annually, by the University of Chicago's Board of University Publications, on the faculty author, editor, or translator whose book has brought the greatest distinction to the list of the University of Chicago ...
for distinction in academic publishing,
and ''An Archeology of Sympathy: The Sentimental Mode in Literature and Cinema'' (2013), which examines continuities between the Romantic culture of sentiment and twentieth-century film.
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1948 births
Living people
American male writers
University of Chicago faculty
Place of birth missing (living people)
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