Professor of English and the History of Art
Office: 70 Brown St.,
Rm. 338
Phone: (401) 863-9268
Courses
'08-'09
Sem
I:
On leave
Sem
II:
• ENGL 0600J -
S01: Madmen, Mystics, Prophets, and Perverts -- CRN 25281
•
ENGL 1510S - S01: Pre-Raphaelites -- CRN 21431
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Degrees
Ph.D.
Princeton University
M.A. Brandeis
MA ad endum, Brown
B.A.
Princeton University
Research
Interests
Nineteenth-century
literature, art, religion, and new media & hypertext theory
Professional
Accomplishments
Before
coming to Brown in 1971, Landow taught at Columbia and Chicago
universities, and he has since taught at NEH summer institutes at
Yale. A Fulbright Scholar, Guggenheim Fellow, and Fellow of the
Cornell Society for the Humanities, he has received numerous grants
and awards from NEH and NEA, and has been invited to serve as Fellow
of Brasenose College, Oxford, British Academy Visiting Professor at
the U. of Lancaster, Visiting Research Fellow in Computer Science at
the U. of Southampton, Visiting Professor, U. of Zimbabwe, and
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Shaw Professor of English and
Computer Science, NUS and founding dean, University Scholars
Programme, NUS. His books on Victorian literature and culture include
The
Aesthetic and Critical Theories of John Ruskin
(Princeton UP, 1971), Victorian
Types, Victorian Shadows
(Routledge, 1980), Approaches
to Victorian Autobiography
(Ohio UP, 1979), Images
of Crisis: Literary Iconology, 1750 to the Present
(Routledge, 1982), Ruskin
(Oxford UP, 1985), A
Pre- Raphaelite Friendship
(UMI, 1985), Elegant
Jeremiahs: The Sage from Carlyle to Mailer
(Cornell UP, 1986). His books on hypertext and digital culture
include Hypermedia
and Literary Studies
(MIT, 1991), and The
Digital Word
(MIT, 1993) both co-edited with Paul Delany, and Hypertext:
The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology
(Hopkins, 1992) and Hypertext
2.0
(1997). He has also edited Hyper/Text/Theory
(Hopkins, 1994). He is founder and webmaster of the Victorian,
Postcolonial, and Cyberspace and Hypertext websites
“George Landow” Brown University. June 22 <http://www.brown.edu/Departments/English/faculty/glandow.php>