Dr. Antony H Harrison

University Distinguished Professor & Department Head

• Website: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~engahh/
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• Email: tony_harrison@ncsu.edu
• Phone: 919-515-4101
• Office: Tompkins Hall 221A
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Biography

Antony Harrison is a well-known literary scholar with diverse interests. Since receiving his Ph. D. from the University of Chicago in 1974, he has taught at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, where he currently is a Distinguished Professor of English and serves as Head of his department. He became a full professor in 1987, and in 1992 received the NCSU Alumni Distinguished Research Professor award, one of only three annual awardees in a large, diverse research institution. He graduated from Stanford University in 1970.  

He enjoys working with students toward publication of their work. When not managing the complex and diverse activities of the NCSU English Department or choking on the dust of nineteenth-century archives, he enjoys the company of his 12 year-old son.  

Interests

Harrison´s research interests include textual editing, gender studies, critical theory (especially historicist), nineteenth-century English poetry, and the history of the book. His newest authored book is The Cultural Production of Matthew Arnold (2009). He has edited The Letters of Christina Rossetti (4 volumes) and is a Completing Editor for The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. He has also published two theorized studies of Victorian poetry: Victorian Poets and the Politics of Culture: Discourse and Ideology, and Victorian Poets and Romantic Poems: Intertextuality and Ideology; books on Christina Rossetti and A.C. Swinburne; edited collections of essays on Christina Rossetti and on gender issues in Victorian poetry; and co-edited the Blackwell Companion to Victorian Poetry. He is on the editorial boards of Victorian Poetry, Victorian Institute Journal, and The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, the Dante Rossetti Archive, Nineteenth-Century Studies, RaVoN, Review 19, and NINES. He has held grants from the National Endowment for the humanities (three times) as well as the ACLS, and he has been a fellow at the National Humanities Center and the Folger Shakespeare Library.