Rate My Professor Philip Gould

Gould's research focuses on early American literature and culture, transatlantic theory and history, antebellum American literature and politics, relations between literature and culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, British America, the early American republic, American historical fiction, antislavery writing, and loyalist perspectives on the American Revolution. His key publications include War Power: Literature and the State in the Civil War North (Oxford University Press, 2024), Writing the Rebellion: Loyalists and the Literature of Politics in British America (Oxford University Press, 2013; finalist for the Society of Early Americanists Book Prize), Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (Harvard University Press, 2003), and Covenant and Republic: Historical Romance and the Politics of Puritanism (Cambridge University Press, 1996; paperback 2005). He has co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing (Cambridge University Press, 2001) and “Genius in Bondage”: The Literature of the Early Black Atlantic (University Press of Kentucky, 2001). Awards include Fellow of the American Antiquarian Society since 2006, American Antiquarian Society Fellowship (2000), William A. Dyer Jr. Chair in the Humanities (1997-1999), and several honors from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Gould has served on editorial boards for American Literary History (2003-present), Early American Literature (2004-2009), and Eighteenth-Century Studies (2020-2023), and as a council member of the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture. He teaches courses on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literature, the American Revolution, the early republic, Civil War literature, and authors such as Melville, Poe, Hawthorne, and Dickinson.