James Egan

Jim Egan is Professor of English at Brown University. His research focuses on the use of digital tools to read, engage, organize, analyze, and imagine literature in particular and storytelling more broadly. He was trained as a scholar of British-American literature before 1800, and he published Authorizing Experience: Refigurations of the Body Politic in Seventeenth-Century New England Writing (1999) and Oriental Shadows: The Presence of the East in Early American Literature (2011). His courses explore the ways literature complicates our understanding of the way we make evaluative judgements about fundamental issues related to, among other topics, justice, morality, and social responsibility. His courses routinely investigate these issues in relation to the changing ways we encounter literature in a digital world.