Leslie Eckel, PhD

Honors Coordinator in English
Co-Director, Honors Major in History and Literature

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
• Utopian Literary Studies

Publications

Books

• The Edinburgh Companion to Atlantic Literary Studies, ed. with Clare Elliott. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016.
• Atlantic Citizens: Nineteenth-Century American Writers At Work in the World. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013.

Edited Volumes

• “Boston and the New Atlantic World.” Ed. with Joel Pace. Special issue of Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations 15.1 (2011).

Recent Articles & Book Chapters

• “Emerson’s Transatlantic Networks.” Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by Mark Long and Sean Ross Meehan, Modern Language Association, 2018, pp. 169-174.
• “Oratory.” Walt Whitman in Context, edited by Joanna Levin and Edward Whitley, Cambridge University Press, 2018, pp. 98-107.
• “Crosscurrents of Black Utopianism: Martin R. Delany’s and Frederick Douglass’s Countercultural Atlantic.” The Edinburgh Companion to Atlantic Literary Studies, edited by Leslie Elizabeth Eckel and Clare Frances Elliott, Edinburgh University Press, 2016, pp. 131-145.
• "Radical Innocence: Margaret Fuller's Utopian Rome." Transatlantica (2015).
• "Oceanic Mirrors: Atlantic Literature and the Global Chaosmos." Atlantic Studies 11.1 (2014): 128-144.
• "Gender." Ralph Waldo Emerson in Context. Ed. Wesley T. Mott. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 188-195.
• "'The test of salt water': New Models for Transatlantic Studies." Co-authored with Joel Pace. Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations 15.1 (2011): 3-16.
• "Longfellow's Dantean Imagination and the Volume of the World." Dante Studies 128 (2010): 149-161.
• "Reading with Wonder: Encounters with Moby-Dick." Common-place 10.2 (2010).

Manuscripts in Preparation

• Dwelling in Possibility: Atlantic Utopias and Countercultures (monograph).
• The Collected Writings of Margaret Fuller, edited with Sonia Di Loreto and Andrew Taylor, Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming (8-volume scholarly edition).
• “Emerson, Reluctant Feminist.” The Oxford Handbook of Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by Christopher Hanlon, Oxford University Press, forthcoming (book chapter).

Film

• Margaret Fuller: Transatlantic Revolutionary. Directed by Jonathan Schwartz, performances by Megan Marshall, Charles Capper, Leslie Eckel, and Katie Kornacki, Risorgimento Productions, 2021.