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Lawrence Buell (born 1939) is the current
Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature at
Harvard University, specialist on
antebellum American literature and a pioneer of
Ecocriticism. He is the 2007 recipient of the Jay Hubbell Medal for Lifetime Achievement in American Literary studies, the "highest professional award that the American Literature Section of the MLA can give." He won the 2003
Warren-Brooks Award for outstanding literary criticism for his 2003 book on
Ralph Waldo Emerson. His
Writing for an Endangered World won the 2001 John G. Cawelti Award for the best book in the field of American Culture Studies.
Life and work
Professor Buell earned an
A.B. at Princeton University before enrolling at
Cornell University for his
Ph.D. He was a professor at
Oberlin College before moving to Harvard in 1990.
Buell served as the Harvard College Dean of Undergraduate Education from 1992–1996, and later chaired the Department of
English and American Literature and Languages. He is also on the graduate committee for degrees in the study of
American Civilization.
Both the
Boston Globe and the
Harvard Crimson have regularly requested commentary from Buell for published articles concerning his views on undergraduate life. His term as Dean of Undergraduate Education and previous...
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