Antony H. Harrison
Date of Birth: 9 October 1948

Address:

Office Phone: (919) 515-4149 . . . Home Phone: (919) 782-4938
Fax: (919) 786-1040 . . . E-mail: tony_harrison@ncsu.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D. University of Chicago (English), 1974
M.A. University of Chicago (English), 1971
B.A. Stanford University (English), 1970

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Distinguished Professor of English, NCSU, 2009-

Head, Department of English, NCSU, 2006-

Director of Graduate Programs, Department of English, 2005-06

Professor of English, NCSU, 1987-

Associate Professor of English, NCSU, 1980-87

Assistant Professor of English, NCSU, 1974-80

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Texts/Editions Division, 1995-98 ($155,000)
• ACLS Travel Grant to International Conferences, 1994
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Texts/Editions Division, 1992-94 ($88,960)
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers, 1992-93 (declined)
• National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1987
• Folger Shakespeare Library Fellow, 1983
• National Humanities Center Fellow, 1981-82
• Ford Foundation Fellow, University of Chicago, 1970-74
• Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellow, 1970
• Phi Beta Kappa, Stanford University, 1970

AWARDS AND HONORS

• NCSU College of Humanities and Social Sciences Distinguished Research Award, 1998-99
• NCSU Alumni Outstanding Research Professor, 1992 (3 awarded annually across the university)
• Departmental Nominee, Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, 1983
• Departmental Nominee, Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, 1981
• Ford Foundation Fellow, University of Chicago, 1970-74
• Phi Beta Kappa, Stanford University, 1970

PUBLICATIONS
Authored Books

• The Cultural Production of Matthew Arnold. Ohio UP. (Forthcoming, Fall, 2009).
• Victorian Poets and the Politics of Culture: Discourse and Ideology. UP of Virginia, 1998. (paperback, 2009)
• Victorian Poets and Romantic Poems: Intertextuality and Ideology. UP of Virginia, 1990. (Paperback ed. 1992). Selected as one of five works to inaugurate the UVA Press electronic texts series, "Rotunda" (2006). Also, reprinted, 2008.
• Christina Rossetti in Context. UNC Press, 1988. (Cloth and paper; co-published by Harvester Press, England). Reprinted, 2009.
• Swinburne´s Medievalism: A Study in Victorian Love Poetry. LSU Press, 1988. Reprinted, 2008.

• The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Vols. 7-10. Completing Co-Editor (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2008-2010).
• The Letters of Christina Rossetti. 4 vols. Editor. UP of Virginia (vol.1, 1997; vol.2, 1998; vol.3,2000; vol.4, 2004). Selected as one of five works to inaugurate the UVA Press electronic texts series, "Rotunda," 2007. URL: http://rock.ei.virginia.edu:8100/crossetti/
• The Blackwell Companion to Victorian Poetry. Co-editor. Blackwell, 2002. (600 pages). Electronic edition, 2006. Paperback edition, 2007.
• The Culture of Christina Rossetti. Co-editor. Ohio UP, 1999.
• Christina Rossetti, 1830-1894. Guest editor, special double issue of Victorian Poetry vol. 32, nos. 3-4 (Winter, 1994)
• Gender and Discourse in Victorian Literature and Art. Co-editor. Northern Illinois UP, 1992.
• The Metaphysical Poets in the Nineteenth Century. Guest editor, special issue of John Donne Journal (Vol. 4, no. 2, 1985).

Articles

• "Christina Rossetti: Illness and Ideology." Victorian Poetry 45 (2007: 415-28).
• "Victorian Culture Wars: Matthew Arnold, Arthur Hugh Clough, and Alexander Smith in 1853." Victorian Poetry 42 (Spr. 2005): 509-520.
• "Arthurian Poetry and Medievalism." in The Blackwell Companion to Victorian Poetry (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002). 246-61.
• "1848." in Victorian Literature and Culture. ed. Herbert Tucker. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1998). 19-34.
• "The Letters of Christina Rossetti to Caroline Gemmer." Victorians Institute Journal 24 (1996): 226-46.
• "Epistolary Relations: The Correspondence of Christina Rossetti and D. G. Rossetti." The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies. New Series 4 (1995): 91-101.
• "Introduction: Christina Rossetti in 1994." Victorian Poetry 32 (1994): 203-207.
• "I am Christina Rossetti." Humanities 14 (Jul/Aug 1993): 33-37.
• "Christina Rossetti among the Romantics: Influence and Ideology." in Romantic/Victorian: Influence and Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Poetry. ed. Kim Blank and Margot K. Louis (London: Macmillan, 1993), 131-49.
• "Medievalist Discourse and the Ideologies of Victorian Poetry" in Studies in Medievalism IV, ed. Leslie Workman (London: Boydell and Brewer, 1992). 219-34.
• "Cleon and Its Contexts" in Critical Essays on Robert Browning. ed. Mary Ellis Gibson (New York: G. K. Hall, 1992) Repr. from Victorian Poets and Romantic Poems.
• "Matthew Arnold's Gipsies: Intertextuality and Historicism." Victorian Poetry 29 (1991- "Victorian Poetry and Contemporary Theory," ed. Thais E. Morgan), 365-83.
• "Introduction" (with Beverly Taylor) in Gender and Discourse in Victorian Literature and Art. ed. A. H. Harrison and Beverly Taylor (Dekalb: Northern Illinois UP, 1992).
• "Swinburne and the Critique of Ideology in The Awakening." in Gender and Discourse in Victorian Literature and Art,ed. A. H. Harrison and Beverly Taylor (Dekalb: Northern Illinois UP, 1992), 185-206.
• "Christina Rossetti and the Sage Discourse of Feminist High Anglicanism," in Victorian Sages and Cultural Discourse: Renegotiating Gender and Power, ed. Thais E. Morgan (New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1990), 87-104.
• "Dante Rossetti: Parody and Ideology," Studies in English Literature 29 (Fall, 1989), 745-61, Repr. Critical Essays on Dante Rossetti ed. David Riede (New York: G. K. Hall, 1992), 191-205.
• "Eighteen Early Letters by Christina Rossetti," in The Achievement of Christina Rossetti, ed. David Kent (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1988), 192-207.
• "Reception Theory and the New Historicism: The Metaphysical Poets in the Nineteenth Century." John Donne Journal 4 (1985), 163-79.
• "Christina Rossetti: The Poetic Vocation," Texas Studies in Literature and Language 27 (1985): 225-48. Repr. in World Literature Criticism, 1500 to the Present: A Selection of Major Authors from Gale´s Literary Criticism Series, ed. James P. Draper (Detroit: Gale Research, Inc., 1992).
• "The Medievalism of Swinburne´s Poems and Ballads, First Series: Historicity and Erotic Aestheticism." Papers on Language and Literature 21 (1985), 129-51.
• "For Love of this My Brother: Medievalism and Tragedy in Swinburne´s The Tale of Balen" Texas Studies in Literature and Language 25 (1983): 470-94.
• "Swinburne´s Losses: The Poetics of Passion," ELH 49 (1982): 689-706.
• "Morris´s Cataclysm and Pre-Raphaelite Tragedy," South Atlantic Review 47 (1982): 43-51.
• "Cleon´s ´Joy-Hunger´ and the Empedoclean Context" Studies in Browning and His Circle 9 (1981): 57-68.
• "Irony in Tennyson´s ´Little Hamlet´" Journal of General Education 32 (1981), 271-86.
• "Eros and Thanatos in Swinburne´s Poetry: An Introduction," Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies 2 (1981): 22-35.
• "The Ancient Mariner as Poete Maudit: A Note," in A Fair Day in the Affections, ed. Jack Durant and M. Thomas Hester (Raleigh: The Winston Press, 1981), 147-49.
• "Swinburne and Courtly Love" Victorian Poetry 18 (1980): 61-4.
• "The Swinburnean Woman," Philological Quarterly 58 (1979), 90-102.
• "The Aesthetics of Androgyny in Swinburne´s Early Poetry" Tennessee Studies in Literature 23 (1978), 87-99.
• "Hardy´s Poetry: The Uses of Nature," BSUF 19 (1978) 63-70.
• "Swinburne´s Craft of Pure Expression" Victorian Newsletter 51 (1977), 16-21. Repr. Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, ed. Paula Kepos (Detroit: Gale Research, 1990).
• "Ruskin Against Tradition: Two Theories of Landscape Art in Early Victorian England" Victorian Institute Journal 4 (1977): 1-15.
• "Swinburne´s Tristram of Lyonesse: Visionary and Courtly Epic," Modern Language Quarterly 37 (1976), 370-89. Rpr. in Tristan and Isolde: A Casebook, ed. Joan Tasker Grimbert. New York: Garland, 1995, 301-23.

• Women Writers and Nineteenth-Century Medievalism by Clare broome Saunders. New Books Online 19 (Fall, 2009)
• The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Ed. William E. Fredeman. Victorian Poetry 42, 2004: 201-205.
• Selected Prose of Christina Rossetti, ed. D. Kent and P. Stanwood. Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies new series, 7 (Fall, 1998), 115-16.
• Annoying the Victorians by James Kincaid. Criticism 38 (Winter 1996), 166-69.
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Poet and Painter by Eben Bass; English Pre-Raphaelitism and Its Reception in America in the Nineteenth Century by Susan Casteras; The Legend of Elizabeth Siddal by Jan Marsh; and Selected Letters of William Michael Rossetti ed. Roger Peattie, Victorian Studies 35 (1991), 99-101.
• Swinburne and His Gods: The Roots and Growth of Agnostic Poetry by Margot K. Louis. JGEP 90 (1991), 449-52.
• Christina Rossetti and the Poetry of Discovery by Katherine Mayberry, Nineteenth-Century Literature 45 (1990), 383-86.
• Vanishing Lives: Style and Self in Tennyson, D. G. Rossetti, and Yeats by James Richardson Victorian Studies 33 (1990), 339-40.
• The Language of Exclusion: The Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Christina Rossetti by Sharon Leder with Andrea Abbott, American Literature (1988), 112-14.
• The Complete Poems of Christina G. Rossetti., vol. 2. ed. R. W. Crump and Christina Rossetti: Critical Perspectives, 1862-1982 by Edna Charles Victorian Poetry 25 (1987) 94-99.
• The Romantic Ideology by Jerome J. McGann, South Atlantic Review 49 (1984), 122-26.
• The Poetry of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Modes of Self-Expression by Joan Rees, Philological Quarterly, 62 (1983), 122-25.
• Images of Crisis: Literary Iconology, 1750 to the Present by George Landow, The Comparatist 7 (1983), 76-78.
• Algernon Charles Swinburne: A Bibliography of Secondary Works, 1861-1980 by Kirk Beetz, Modern Philology 81 (1983), 76-78.
• La Bella Mano: An Exhibition of Pre-Raphaelite Art and Crafts at the Virginia Museum of Art, Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies 4 (1983): 139-42.

WORK IN PROGRESS

- Victorian Taste: A Reconsideration

SELECTED ADMINISTRATIVE AND COMMITTEE EXPERIENCE

• Member, CHASS Dean Search Committee, 2008-09
• Member, NCSU Summer School Implementation Committee, 2007-08
• Member, English Department Head Search Committee, 2005-06
• Member, SAS Distinguished Professorship Search Committee, 2004-05
• Chair, English Department Curriculum Committee, 1999-2000
• Member, English Department Curriculum Committe, 1998-2000
• Member, CHASS Dean Search Committee, 1994-95
• Chair, 19th Century British Fiction Search Committee, 1994-95
• Chair, English Department Research Committee, 1991-94
• Member, English Department Hiring Committee, 1985-88, 1990-92
• Member, English Department Graduate Council, 1980-90, 93-94, 98-99
• Cp-Director of Graduate Studies, 1987-88
• Chair, College of Humanities and social Sciences Outstanding Teaching Committee, 1987-88
• Chair, English Department Speakers Committee, 1987-89
• Member, English Department Executive (Personnel) Committee, 1987-
• Chair, College of Humanities and Social Sciences Personnel Committee, 1985-86
• Associate Director of Freshman English, 1986-87
• Coordinator of English Majors, 1983-85

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Editorial Boards:

New Books Online 19 (Refereed, Web-based journal), 2009-

RaVoN (Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (Refereed, Web-based journal), 2008-

Nineteenth-Century Studies in Gender, 2005- (Refereed, Web-based journal)

Victorians Institude Journal, 1992-

Victorian Poetry, 1992-

Journal of Pre-Raphaelite and Aesthetic Studies, 1988-

NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century English Scholarship), 2007-

Dante Rossetti Hypertext Archive, 2005-

• Ohio University Press
• Longmans
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
• Committee on Scholarly Editions (MLA)
• Wayne State University Press
• Oxford University Press
• Blackwell
• University of Missouri Press
• National Endowment for the Humanities (Division of Research Programs)
• Nineteenth-Century Studies
• PMLA
• Studies in Medievalism
• Tulsa Studies in Women´s Literature
• Victorians Institute Journal
• Victorian Poetry
• Victorian Studies
• Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies

• Univ. of Kentucky (2003)
• University of Houston (2003)
• University of Glasgow (2003)
• University of Notre Dame (2002)
• Nippissing University (1997)
• Tulane University, (1995)
• Rutgers University (1992)
• Arizona State University (1990)
• University of Kentucky (1990)
• Allegheny College (1990)
• San Jose State Univ (1987)

Proposed Ph.D. in "Writing and Language Studies," University of Memphis. External Reviewer, 14-15 October, 1998.

University of Halifax, External Examiner (September 2003)
UNC Chapel Hill, Devon Fisher (April, 2005)

• Keynote: Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Associatioin, (Seattle, October, 2008)
• Keynote: Victorians Institute (USC, Columbia, S.C.)
• University of Florida
• University of South Florida
• University of Glasgow
• Dundee University
• St. Andrews University
• University of Ottawa
• University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
• Keynote: Yale University
• Oxford University (Balliol College)
• The University of Colorado (Boulder)
• Duke University
• Bucknell University
• The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
• Baylor University
• West Virginia University
• Anglia Polytechnic University (Cambridge)

TEACHING

Graduate and undergraduate honors seminars in Literary Theory, Victorian poetry, Pre-Raphaelitism, Victorian non-fiction prose, English Romanticism, and Gender Issues in Nineteenth-Century English Literature, along with a variety of courses (covering these and other fields) at the freshman, sophomore, and senior levels.

CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT

Chair of Departmental Curriculum Committee (1999-2000), which began revision of curricula for all major options. Directly involved in the development of NCSU's M.S. degree in Technical Communication and a proposal for a Ph.D. in English. Have developed and taught a wide variety of courses at the graduate and undergraduate level focused on gender issues in literary study and theoretically informed historicist approaches to English literature (mainly nineteenth century).

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