Leslie Eckel, Assistant Professor

Leslie Eckel, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of English

Phone: 617.994.6436
Fax: 617.305.1744
Email: leckel@suffolk.edu
Office: Fenton Building, Rm. 332

Education

• PhD, Yale University
• MPhil, University of Oxford
• BA, Harvard University

Research Interests

• Nineteenth-century American literature
• Transatlantic studies
• African American literature and the Black Atlantic
• Theories of cosmopolitanism and globalism
• Literature and the professions (especially journalism, editing, public lecturing, and education)
• Literary utopias and countercultures
• British Romanticism
• South Asian literatures

Books

Atlantic Citizens: Nineteenth-Century American Writers At Work in the World (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming).

Dwelling in Possibility: Atlantic Utopias and Countercultures (monograph in progress).

Journal Issue 

Co-ed. with Joel Pace, “Boston and the New Atlantic World,” a special issue of Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations 15.1 (2011).

Essays 

"Gender." Emerson in Context. Ed. Wesley T. Mott. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

"The test of salt water': New Models for Transatlantic Studies." Co-authored with Joel Pace. Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations 15.1 (2011): 3-16.

“Longfellow’s Dantean Imagination and the Volume of the World.” Dante Studies 128 (2010): 149-161.

“Reading with Wonder: Encounters with Moby-Dick.” Common-place 10.2 (2010).

“Margaret Fuller’s Conversational Journalism: New York, London, Rome.” Arizona Quarterly 63.2 (2007): 27-50.

“‘Symbols Mystical and Awful’: Longfellow’s and Emerson’s Primitive Poetics.” ESQ 52.1-2 (2006): 45-74.

“Empire of the Muse: American Encounters with Wordsworth.” Literature Compass 1 (2004).

Professional Activities

Co-organizer with Joel Pace of the 7th Biennial Symbiosis Conference: “Boston and the New Atlantic World,”
Suffolk University, June 2009

Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations
Advisory Board Member, 2009 to present

Ralph Waldo Emerson Society

Program Co-Chair, 2011-2013

Advisory Board Member, 2008-2010

Margaret Fuller Society

Advisory Board Member, 2008-2010

Courses Taught
ENG 101 - Freshman English I
ENG 102 - Freshman English II                                                                                                                               ENG 216 - World Literature in English
ENG 217 - American Literature I: Beginnings to 1865
ENG 301 - Gateway Seminar for Majors: American Literary Genealogies
ENG 352 - Global American Literature
ENG 354 - Hawthorne, Melville, and Stowe
ENG 356 - Whitman and Dickinson                                                                                                                         ENG H524 - Honors Seminar: Literary Utopias and Dystopias
SF 188 - Travel, Exile, and the Literary Imagination                                                                                                                                                               Women's and Gender Studies 111: Women, History, and Culture