Dr. James Buzard

Professor

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Biography

James Buzard is a Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a focus on 19th- and early 20th-century Anglo-American literature and culture. He has a particular interest in fiction, exploring works by authors such as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, the Brontës, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf. He teaches introductory classes and has published influential works such as 'Beaten Track: European Tourism, Literature, and Ways of 'Culture,' 1800-1918' and 'Disorienting Fiction: Autoethnographic Work of Nineteenth-Century British Novels.' Buzard has contributed to various journals and essay collections, serving as a contributing editor for 'Victorian Prism: Refractions of the Crystal Palace.' His teaching covers a range of subjects including modernism and cultural criticism, with courses such as 'Reading Fiction' and 'Major Novels: Mystery, Detection, Suspense.'

Research Interests

Awards

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Levitan Prize

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NEH Fellow

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Class of 1956 Career Development Chair

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Junior Fellow

Courses

21L.001: Homer and Dante 21L.003: Reading Fiction 21L.471 Major Novels: Mystery, Detection, Suspense 21L.512 American Authors: T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden 21L.705 Major Authors: James Joyce