James Najarian

Associate Professor B.A., Yale University Ph.D., Yale University Carney Hall 452 Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 Phone: 617-552-1927 Fax: 617-552-4220 najariaj@bc.edu http://www2.bc.edu/~najariaj

Academic Profile

Professor Najarian specializes in Romantic and Victorian Poetry and nonfiction prose. His interests include gender and sexuality in literature, poetic influence, religion in literature, and book production. He is currently working on a study of the idea of the 'minor poet' in the nineteenth century.

Courses

• EN171.01 - Introduction to British Literature & Culture
• EN371.01 - British Short Fiction 19th/Modern
• EN887.01 - Introduction to Advanced Research

Publications (selected)

• "Canonicity, Marginality, and the Celebration of the Minor, " Victorian Poetry 41. 3(Winter 2003).
• "Romanticisms, Histories, and Romantic Cultures," College Literature 30.3
  (Summer 2003) 139-50.
• Victorian Keats: Manliness, Sexuality, and Desire (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002).
• "'Greater Love': Wilfred Owen, Keats, and a Tradition of Desire," Twentieth-Century Literature 47:1 (Spring 2000): 20-38.
• "Buddhism, East and West," Religion and the Arts 4:4 (Fall 2000): 547-55.
• "Canonicity, Marginality, and the Celebration of the Minor, " Victorian Poetry 41. 3(Winter 2003).
• "Romanticisms, Histories, and Romantic Cultures," College Literature 30.3
  (Summer 2003) 139-50.