Meredith L. McGill

Meredith L. McGill is professor of English at Rutgers University and co-director with Jacqueline Goldsby (Yale) of the Black Bibliography Project (www.blackbibliog.org). She is the author of American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834–1853 (2003; 2008), a study of nineteenth-century American resistance to tight control over intellectual property, and the editor of two collections of essays: Taking Liberties with the Author (2013), which explores the persistence of the author as a shaping force in literary criticism, and The Traffic in Poems: Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Transatlantic Exchange (2008), in which a number of scholars model ways of understanding nineteenth-century poetry within a transatlantic framework. She is currently completing a book on the circulation of poetry in the antebellum United States.

McGill served as chair of the Rutgers English department from 2021-2024 and as president of C19: The Society of Nineteenth Century Americanists from 2018-2020. She has also served as Director of Rutgers’ Center for Critical Analysis. At AAS she was a Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellow in 1995 and a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in 2003-04.