James Chandler (academic)

{{About||the Canadian judge and politician|James Watson Chandler|the American Medal of Honor recipient|James B. Chandler|the American architect|James Gilbert Chandler}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2025}} {{BLP sources|date=July 2009}} '''James Chandler''' (born January 17, 1948<ref>"James Chandler". ''Contemporary Authors Online''. December 12, 2006. Retrieved on December 20, 2010.</ref>) is the director of the [[Franke Institute for the Humanities]] and holds the Barbara E. & Richard J. Franke Professorship in English Language and Literature at the [[University of Chicago]].<ref>{{cite news |title=James Chandler |url=https://english.uchicago.edu/faculty/james-chandler |accessdate=24 June 2019 |publisher=University of Chicago}}</ref> He was previously the George M. Pullman Professor in English Language & Literature at the same institution.<ref name="2000gjlaing"/>

Chandler is the author of three books on English [[Romanticism]]: ''Wordsworth's Second Nature'' (1984<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo5969952.html|title=Wordsworth's Second Nature|publisher=University of Chicago Press }}</ref>), ''England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism'', which won the 2000 [[Gordon J. Laing Award]] for distinction in academic publishing,<ref name="2000gjlaing">{{cite news |last1=Fournier |first1=Arthur |title=Chandler wins 2000 Laing Award |url=https://chronicle.uchicago.edu/010426/chandler.shtml |accessdate=24 June 2019 |work=University of Chicago Chronicle |volume=20 |issue=15 |publisher=University of Chicago |date=26 April 2001}}</ref> and ''An Archeology of Sympathy: The Sentimental Mode in Literature and Cinema'' (2013), which examines continuities between the Romantic culture of sentiment and twentieth-century film.

In 2024, Chandler was made an honorary member of the [[Royal Irish Academy]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/2024/the-royal-irish-academy-elects-28-new-members/ |title=The Royal Irish Academy elects 28 new members |date=27 May 2024 |website=ria.ie |publisher=Royal Irish Academy |access-date=2025-05-12}}</ref>

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==External links== {{Portal|Biography}} *[http://experts.uchicago.edu/ University of Chicago Experts] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061207165235/http://experts.uchicago.edu/ |date=2006-12-07 }} *[https://english.uchicago.edu/ University of Chicago Faculty] *[http://hum.uchicago.edu/frankeinstitute/ Franke Institute for the Humanities] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061111222232/http://hum.uchicago.edu/frankeinstitute/ |date=2006-11-11 }}

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