James Najarian

associate professor of english


James Najarian

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James Najarian
Department of English
College of Arts and Sciences

najariaj@bc.edu

http://www2.bc.edu/~najariaj

Office Location
Carney Hall 452
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

Phone: 617-552-1927
Fax: 617-552-4220


   
EDUCATION

B.A., Yale University
Ph.D., Yale University

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

New Window Will Open EN171.01- Introduction to British Literature & Culture

New Window Will Open EN371.01 - British Short Fiction 19th/Modern

New Window Will Open 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.