Interests and Information
Advisory editor, Early American Literature
Early American literature
American renaissance
History of the book in America
Nineteenth-century popular culture
History of American music
Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies
Professor of English
Ph. D., Harvard University, 1977
A.B., Harvard College, 1972
gura@email.unc.edu
http://www.unc.edu/~gura
(919) 962-4033
Philip F. Gura
My research interests range widely from the colonial era through the Civil war, in American literature and American Studies. Although I have written on a wide range of topics, including the history of American music, most recently I have returned to long-standing interests in American literature and religion. In 2007, Hill & Wang published my American Transcendentalists: A History, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction. Now I am completing Still Making History, the bicentennial history of the American Antiquarian Society, one of the nation’s oldest learned societies. I regularly teach courses in American literature and American Studies.
