Research interests
Dante Gabriel Rossetti's The Blue Closet
Antony Harrison is a well-known literary scholar with diverse interests. Since receiving his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1974, he has taught at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, where he currently is a Distinguished Professor of English.
He graduated from Stanford University, has been a fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library, and at the National Humanities Center. He has also been awarded three major grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 1992 received the NCSU Alumni Distinguished Research Professor award, one of only three annual awardees in a large, diverse research institution. In 2009 his important work as a scholar of nineteenth-century British literature was acknowledged with the title of NCSU Distinguished Professor.
Dr. Harrison is deeply involved in his profession. He serves on the advisory board for the Dante Rossetti Hypertext Archive, and the editorial boards of Victorian Poetry, The Victorians Institute Journal, The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, Review 19, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, RaVoN and the NINES.
Harrison is recognized as one of the premier scholars of Christina Georgina Rossetti (illustrations from the first edition of Goblin Market and other Poems appear through this site), having published articles on the "poetess" as well as Christina Rossetti in Context (UNC Press, 1988). He has also edited The Letters of Christina Rossetti in four volumes, (University of Virginia Press Press) and co-edited The Culture of Christina Rossetti (Ohio University Press, 1999).
Harrison´s wide ranging professional interests include digital humanities, textual editing, gender studies, critical theory, intertextuality, and the history of the book. Two of his books address theoretical issues in Victorian poetry: Victorian Poets and Romantic Poems (University of Virginia Press, 1990) and Victorian Poets and the Politics of Culture (University of Virginia Press, 1998). Harrison's The Cultural Production of Matthew Arnold (Ohio University Press, 2009). He has also recently served as a Completing Co-editor for volumes 7-9 of The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. He is also co-editor of co-edited the Blackwell Companion to Victorian Poetry (2002).
His recent digital work includes collaboration on Victoria’s Lost Pavilion: Reconstructing the Arts in Digital Space, which was accompanied by a print volume published in 2016 by Palgrave/Macmillan, and the COVE "meta-edition" of Christina Rossetti's best known poem, Goblin Market.
Harrison has authored and edited a large number of essays, reviews, books, chapters, and articles in a variety of literary fields. For a complete listing, consult his Curriculum Vitae. Some of his publications can be found for sale under Antony Harrison at Amazon.com.
He graduated from Stanford University, has been a fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library, and at the National Humanities Center. He has also been awarded three major grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 1992 received the NCSU Alumni Distinguished Research Professor award, one of only three annual awardees in a large, diverse research institution. In 2009 his important work as a scholar of nineteenth-century British literature was acknowledged with the title of NCSU Distinguished Professor.
Dr. Harrison is deeply involved in his profession. He serves on the advisory board for the Dante Rossetti Hypertext Archive, and the editorial boards of Victorian Poetry, The Victorians Institute Journal, The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, Review 19, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, RaVoN and the NINES.
Harrison is recognized as one of the premier scholars of Christina Georgina Rossetti (illustrations from the first edition of Goblin Market and other Poems appear through this site), having published articles on the "poetess" as well as Christina Rossetti in Context (UNC Press, 1988). He has also edited The Letters of Christina Rossetti in four volumes, (University of Virginia Press Press) and co-edited The Culture of Christina Rossetti (Ohio University Press, 1999).
Harrison´s wide ranging professional interests include digital humanities, textual editing, gender studies, critical theory, intertextuality, and the history of the book. Two of his books address theoretical issues in Victorian poetry: Victorian Poets and Romantic Poems (University of Virginia Press, 1990) and Victorian Poets and the Politics of Culture (University of Virginia Press, 1998). Harrison's The Cultural Production of Matthew Arnold (Ohio University Press, 2009). He has also recently served as a Completing Co-editor for volumes 7-9 of The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. He is also co-editor of co-edited the Blackwell Companion to Victorian Poetry (2002).
His recent digital work includes collaboration on Victoria’s Lost Pavilion: Reconstructing the Arts in Digital Space, which was accompanied by a print volume published in 2016 by Palgrave/Macmillan, and the COVE "meta-edition" of Christina Rossetti's best known poem, Goblin Market.
Harrison has authored and edited a large number of essays, reviews, books, chapters, and articles in a variety of literary fields. For a complete listing, consult his Curriculum Vitae. Some of his publications can be found for sale under Antony Harrison at Amazon.com.