Gage C. McWeeny

Gage C. McWeeny

Chair and Professor of English

413-597-4590
Stetson Hall Rm 507
At Williams since 2005

Education

B.A. Columbia University (1993)
M.A. Princeton University (1998)
Ph.D. Princeton University, English & American Literature (2003)

Areas of Expertise

The nineteenth-century novel and realism more generally; Victorian poetry, non-fiction prose, and drama; sociology and literature; twentieth-century and contemporary experimental or conceptual writing and art.

Courses

ENGL 146 SEM

Campus Life: The University and the Novel (not offered 2023/24)

ENGL 240 / COMP 239 SEM

What is a Novel? (not offered 2023/24)

ENGL 344 / COMP 364 SEM

Aestheticism & Decadence (not offered 2023/24)

Scholarship/Creative Work


The Comfort of Strangers:  Social Life and Literary Form (Oxford UP, 2016)

 

 

Reviews / Press for The Comfort of Strangers

The Times Literary Supplement

English Literature in Transition

Review 19

Princeton Alumni Weekly

 

Selected Articles

“Weapons of Mass Reduction”  Cabinet Magazine

“Crowd Management:  Matthew Arnold and the Science of Society”  Victorian Poetry, 41.1 (Spring 2003) 93-111.

“George Eliot and the Science of Society”  Novel, 42.9 (2003) 538-45.

 

Academia.edu profile