Edward Cutler

Specializations

American Literature

Subspecializations

Late 19C/Early 20C

Biography

Ed Cutler specializes in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature, with emphasis on the origins and development of modernism. He has published on nineteenth-century urban and print cultures, as well on Edgar Allan Poe and Walt Whitman. His book, Recovering the New: Transatlantic Roots of Modernism (2003), won the best manuscript prize for the University Press of New England’s series, Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth Century Studies. He is currently working on a book about Walt Whitman’s relationship to Romantic philosophy.

Degrees

PhD, UC San Diego, 1997