Rate My Professor Chris Hanlon

Hanlon holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (2001), an M.A. in American Literature from North Carolina State University (1994), and a B.A. in English from the University of Massachusetts Lowell (1993). His research focuses on nineteenth-century American literature, with particular emphasis on Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, transatlantic literary relations, sectionalism, and memory. He is the author of Emerson’s Memory Loss: Originality, Communality, and the Late Style (Oxford University Press, 2018) and America’s England: Antebellum Literature and Atlantic Sectionalism (Oxford University Press, 2013). He edited The Oxford Handbook of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Oxford University Press, 2024) and is preparing an edition of Emerson’s Natural History of Intellect under contract with Oxford University Press. His articles have appeared in journals including American Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, J19, and Common-place. Hanlon serves as editor of The Dial, the journal of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society, and as co-editor of the book series Interventions in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture for Edinburgh University Press and of American Literary History Review for Oxford University Press. He has contributed chapters to multiple edited volumes on Emerson, the Civil War, and transatlantic studies.