Professor / Graduate Faculty
Ph.D. 1980, University of Illinois, Urbana.

Fields of interest:
Early American Literature; 19th Century American Literature; Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Fiction; Literature and the Environment.

James L. Machor has been a Professor in the English department since 1995, having joined the Kansas State University faculty as an Associate Professor in 1990. His areas of specialization are nineteenth-century and colonial American literature and culture, fiction, and critical theory, with particular emphasis on reception and reader-response criticism and on narratology. He has also taught at Ohio State University and the University of Brussels.

His books include Readers in History: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Context of Response (John Hopkins Univ. Press, 1993), Pastoral Cities: Urban Ideals and the Symbolic Landscape of America (Univ. Of Wisconsin Press, 1987), and (with Philip Goldstein) New Directions in American Reception Study (Oxford Univ. Press, 2008), and Reception Study: From Literary Theory to Cultural Studies (Routledge, 2001). His current project is a book on informed response, middle-class reading, and American fiction before the Civil War. He has been the recipient of a senior Fulbright Fellowship and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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