Leslie Eckel, Assistant Professor

Leslie Eckel

Suffolk University
Department of English
41 Temple St.
Boston, MA 02114

Office: Fenton 332
Telephone: (617) 994-6436
Email: leckel@suffolk.edu

Degrees
Ph.D., English, Yale University, 2007
M.Phil., English Romantic Studies, University of Oxford, 2000
B.A., English, Harvard University, 1998

Research Interests
Nineteenth-century American literature; transatlantic studies; African American literature and the Black Atlantic; theories of cosmopolitanism and globalism; literature and the professions (especially journalism, editing, public lecturing, and education); literary utopias and countercultures; British Romanticism; South Asian literatures

Publications
Transatlantic Professionalism: Nineteenth-Century American Writers at Work in the World (book manuscript in progress).

“Margaret Fuller’s Conversational Journalism: New York, London, Rome.” Arizona Quarterly 63.2 (2007): 27-50.

“‘Symbols Mystical and Awful’: Longfellow’s and Emerson’s Primitive Poetics.” ESQ 52.1-2 (2006): 45-74.

“Empire of the Muse: American Encounters with Wordsworth.” Literature Compass 1 (2004).

Professional Activities
Lead Organizer, 7th Biennial Symbiosis Conference: “Boston and the New Atlantic World,” Suffolk University, June 2009

Advisory Board Member, Ralph Waldo Emerson Society (2008-2010)

Advisory Board Member, Margaret Fuller Society (2008-2010)

Courses Taught
English 101: Freshman English I
English 102: Freshman English II
English 217: American Literature I: Beginnings to 1865
English 301: Gateway Seminar for Majors: American Literary Genealogies
English 354: Hawthorne, Melville, and Stowe
English 356: Whitman and Dickinson
English 424: The Global American Renaissance