Leslie Eckel, Assistant Professor

Leslie Eckel, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of English

 

 

 

 

 

Phone: 617.994.6436
Fax: 617.305.1744
Email: leckel@suffolk.edu
Office: Fenton Building, Rm. 332

 

Education

  • PhD, Yale University
  • MPhil, University of Oxford
  • BA, Harvard University

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

Book In Progress

At Work in the World: Nineteenth-Century American Authorship and Transatlantic Vocation.

 

Journal Issue 

Co-ed. with Joel Pace, “Boston and the New Atlantic World,” a special issue of Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations 15.1 (2011).

 

Essays 

“Longfellow’s Dantean Imagination and the Volume of the World.” Dante Studies 129 (2011): forthcoming.

 

“Reading with Wonder: Encounters with Moby-Dick.” Common-place 10.2 (2010).

 

“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

Co-organizer with Joel Pace of the 7th Biennial Symbiosis Conference: “Boston and the New Atlantic World,”
Suffolk University, June 2009

 

Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations
Advisory Board Member, 2009 to present

  

Ralph Waldo Emerson Society

Program Co-Chair, 2011-2013

Advisory Board Member, 2008-2010

 

Margaret Fuller Society

Advisory Board Member, 2008-2010

 

Courses Taught
ENG 101 - Freshman English I
ENG 102 - Freshman English II
ENG 217 - American Literature I: Beginnings to 1865
ENG 301 - Gateway Seminar for Majors: American Literary Genealogies
ENG 352 - Global American Literature
ENG 354 - Hawthorne, Melville, and Stowe
ENG 356 - Whitman and Dickinson
SF 188 - Travel, Exile, and the Literary Imagination