{{Short description|Canadian literary critic}} {{BLP primary sources|date=December 2017}} '''Marc Shell''', born 1947 in Montreal, is a Canadian literary critic. He has interests in nationalism and kinship. He is Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English, Emeritus, at Harvard University.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://heymancenter.org/people/marc-shell/ |title=Marc Shell |publisher=heymancenter.org |access-date=November 16, 2017}}</ref> Over 5 of his publications have each been cited over 100 times.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C44&q=Marc+Shell&btnG= |title=Marc Shell |access-date=November 16, 2017}}</ref>
==Education== Shell studied at McGill University and Trinity College, Cambridge, and earned a B.A. from Stanford University and a Ph.D. from Yale University. Before Harvard, he taught at The State University of New York (Buffalo) and the University of Massachusetts (Amherst).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://societyoffellows.columbia.edu/speakers/marc-shell/ |title=Marc Shell |publisher=columbia.edu |access-date=November 16, 2017}}</ref> Shell received a MacArthur Fellowship.
=="New Economic Criticism"== Shell is one of the forerunners, along with Jean-Joseph Goux and others, of the literary-critical movement that has been dubbed 'New Economic Criticism '. His contributions to the study of relations between linguistic and literary economies are encompassed in several books, including:
* ''The Economy of Literature'' (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978). * ''Money, Language, and Thought: Literary and Philosophical Economies from the Medieval to the Modern Era'' (University of California Press, 1982). * ''Art and Money'' (University of Chicago Press, 1995).
==Other Work== Shell co-founded Harvard's Longfellow Institute, devoted to the study of Non-English American literatures. His books about translation, language policy and bilingualism include:
* ''The Multilingual Anthology of American Literature'', co-edited with Werner Sollors (NYU Press, 2000) * ''American Babel: Literatures of the United States from Abnaki to Zuni'' (Harvard University Press, 2002)
Shell's books in disability studies include works about paralysis and stuttering.
* ''Polio and its Aftermath'' (Harvard University Press, 2005) * ''Stutter'' (Harvard University Press, 2006)
Shell's writings about Canada and the United States include:
* ''French-Canadian / American Literary Relations'' (McGill French Canada Studies Centre, 1968)
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==External links== *[http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~mshell/ Marc Shell]
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