Len Gougeon, Ph.D.

Department of English,
Professor of American Literature and Distinguished University Fellow

McDade Center for Literary & Performing Arts
Office: CLP205; Phone: x7422
E-mail: GougeonL1@scranton.edu

B.A., St. Mary's University, Halifax
M.A., Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Prof. Gougeon is the author of Virtue's Hero: Emerson, Antislavery, and Reform (Georgia, 1990), Emerson & Eros: The Making of a Cultural Hero (2007), and co-editor (with Joel Myerson) of Emerson's Antislavery Writings (Yale, 1995).

He has published a number of articles in such journals as The New England Quarterly, American Literature, The American Transcendental Quarterly, The South Atlantic Review, The Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, Modern Language Studies, Emerson Society Papers, The Thoreau Society Bulletin, Studies in the American Renaissance, The College Language Association Journal, ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, and others.

His book reviews have appeared in the Journal of the Early Republic, The New England Quarterly, The Journal of American History, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Resources for American Literary Study, the African American Review, and others.

His course offerings range from the Puritans to the moderns in the American tradition. His research interests focus on nineteenth-century American Transcendentalists and Romantics with a particular emphasis on the relationships of major writers and their works to the various reform movements of the time. Prof. Gougeon is past President of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society. He is also a member of the American Literature Association, the American Studies Associations, the American Section of the Modern Language Association, the Thoreau Society, the Margaret Fuller Society, and a number of other professional organizations.  Prof. Gougeon was the University's CASE Professor of the Year Nominee (2000). In 2008 he was presented with the "Distinguished Achievement Award" by the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society.

Dr. Gougeon teaches the following courses:

ENLT 125: Classic American Stories (CL)

ENLT 212: Masters of Darkness (CL, W)

ENLT 230: American Romanticism (CL)

ENLT 243: American Literature to 1865 (Area D)

ENLT 245: American Literature, 1865 to the Present (Area F)

ENLT 350: Major Works: American Romantics (Area D)

ENLT 352: The Development of the American Novel (CL, W)

ENLT 353: Major Works: American Realists (Area F)

ENLT 490: Seminar in Special Topics, American Literature