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Professor Egan published Authorizing Experience: Refigurations of the Body Politic in Seventeenth-Century New England Writing in 1999. His other publications include an essay exploring figures of the East in John Smith's travel narratives, as well as one examining the figure of Alexander the Great in Anne Bradstreet's poetry. In addition to these writings, Professor Egan has published on Ebenezer Cooke, 18th-century Transatlantic mercantile poetry, and Benjamin Franklin.
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Professor Egan came to Brown in 1991 after receiving his PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 1999, he published, Authorizing Experience: Refigurations of the Body Politic in Seventeenth-Century New England Writing (Princeton University Press). He is currently at work on a project that examines figures of the "exotic" and/or "remote" in British-American writing from 1660-1850.
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 JAMES EGAN, Ph.D. UC Santa Barbara 1991M.A. San Francisco State University 1985B.A. UC Santa Cruz 1983 http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/James_Egan Are you James Egan? Click here to edit your research profile. |
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