Contact Information

Office: 4198A JFSB

Phone: 422-4292

E-mail: ed_cutler@byu.edu

Ed Cutler, current Chair of the English Department, specializes in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature, with emphasis on the origins and development of modernism. He has published on nineteenth-century urban and print cultures, as well on Edgar Allan Poe and Walt Whitman.

His book, Recovering the New: Transatlantic Roots of Modernism (2003), won the best manuscript prize for the University Press of New England's series, Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth Century Studies. He is currently working on a book about Walt Whitman's relationship to Romantic philosophy.

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