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Professor
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English
Ph.D. 1969 (English and American literature), M.A. 1968, Harvard; B.A. 1964 (English), Indiana.
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Areas of Research/Interest: Romantic literature; philosophical criticism; biography; American cultural studies Laurence S. Lockridge taught at Harvard, Rutgers, and Northwestern before coming to NYU in 1978. His areas of teaching and research have included British Romanticism, the history of critical theory, literature and philosophy, and the theory and practice of biography. Two books, Coleridge the Moralist and The Ethics of Romanticism, reflect his interest in critical ethics, here centered in British Romantic literature; Shade of the Raintree is a biography of his father, which received the MidAmerica Award in 1998. He is recipient of Danforth, Woodrow Wilson, NEH, and Guggenheim fellowships, and in 2008 received an NYU Golden Dozen Award for excellence in teaching.
Select Publications:
Shade of the Raintree: The Life and Death of Ross Lockridge, Jr., Author of Raintree County. New York: Viking Penguin. 1994. Penguin Books. 1995. Nineteenth-Century Lives. Cambridge University Press, 1989, rpt. 2008. Co-editor with John Maynard and Donald Stone. The Ethics of Romanticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1989. rpt. 2005. Coleridge the Moralist. Cornell University Press, 1977. "Explaining Coleridge's Explanation: Toward a Practical Methodology for Coleridge Studies," in Reading Coleridge, ed. Walter Crawford (Cornell University Press, 1979), 23-55. "Biography and Enigma," in Biography and Source Studies, vol. III (AMSPress, 1998), 143-73. "The Ethics of Biography and Autobiography," in Critical Ethics, ed. D. Rainsford, T. Woods (Macmillan and St. Martin's, 1998), 125-40. "Tracking the Political Keats," review of Andrew Motion's biography, "Keats." Partisan Review (3, 1999), 515-19. Review of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Opus Maximum," ed. T. McFarland. The Wordsworth Circle (Fall, 2002), 132-34.
Affiliations: Executive Committee, The New York Institute for the Humanities; PEN American Center; American Association of Suicidology; Authors' Guild; The Manuscript Society; New York Institute for the Humanities; Modem Language Association, Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, The Biography Seminar.
Fellowships/Honors: Golden Dozen Teaching Award, 2008; Mid America Award, 1998; Suicide Prevention Award, 1995; Guggenheim Fellowship, 1984; National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1977-1978; Danforth Fellowship, 1964-1969; Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1964-1965.
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