Christoph Irmscher (Email; phone 812-855-2037)
Professor
Ph.D. habil., University of Bonn, 1997
Ph.D., University of Bonn, 1991
M.A., University of Bonn, 1988

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Nineteenth-century American literature, American poetry, literature and the history of science, literature and art history, Canadian literature

PARTIAL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
A Keener Perception: Ecocritical Studies in American Art History, with Alan Braddock (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, forthcoming) 

Public Poet, Private Man: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at 200 (Cambridge, MA: Houghton Library, 2007).
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Longfellow Redux (U of Illinois P, 2006)
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Click here to read article from the Longfellow House Bulletin.
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The Poetics of Natural History: From John Bartram to William James (Rutgers UP, 1999)
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John James Audubon, Writings and Drawings (Library of America, 1999)
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Click here for an interview with Christoph Imrscher and filmmaker Larry Hott.

Masken der Moderne: Literarische Selbststilisierung bei T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound,Wallace Stevens und William Carlos Williams (Königshausen and Neumann, 1992)

Samples of recent articles:
“‘So That Nothing May Be Lost’: Thomas McIlwraith’s Birds of Ontario,” in Fiamengo, Janice (ed.), Other Selves: Animals in the Canadian Literary Imagination (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2007) 144-169.

"When Harry Met Annie," Raritan 26.4 (Spring 2007): 155-79.

“Popular Poetry.” American History through Literature, 1870-1890, ed. Gary Scharnhorst and Tom Quirk (Scribner’s, 2006), 859-867

“The Fireside Poets,” American History through Literature , 1850-1870,  ed. Robert Sattelmeyer and Janet Gabler-Hover (Scribner’s, 2006), 420-425

“‘Pearly Light’: Genoa in the Nineteenth-Century American Imagination.”  La città e il mare , ed. Giorgetta Revelli (Edizioni ETS, 2005),  285-302

“Nature-Writing,” The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature, ed. Eva-Marie Kroeller ( Cambridge UP, 2004) 94-114

 “ Darwin’s Beard.” Aging and Old Age in British and American Literature, ed. Christa Jansohn ( LIT, 2004), 87-106

“Longfellow Redux,” Raritan 21.3 (Winter 2002): 100-129

“Nature Laughs at Our Systems: Philip Henry Gosse’s The Canadian Naturalist,” Canadian Literature 170/171 (Autumn/Winter 2001): 58-86

“Audubon and the Veiled Lady,” The American Scholar 68.3 (Summer 1999): 65-76

WORK IN PROGRESS
Louis Agassiz: A Cultural Biography (under contract with U of Virginia P)

The McIlwraith Family, with Eva-Marie Kroeller ( University of British Columbia) 

PARTIAL LIST OF AWARDS
Friends of the Longfellow House, 2006
NEH Faculty Fellowship, 2005-2006
Rodney G. Dennis Fellow in the Study of Manuscripts, 2004
Research Fellowship, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 2003
NEH Summer Stipend, 2002
American Studies Network Prize 2000
CUE Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Harvard University, 2000
Literature and Language Award of the Association of American Publishers, 1999