James Butler, Ph.D.

My particular interests are in nineteenth-century British literature, especially Wordsworth and Coleridge, and I teach courses on those subjects. But my teaching interests also range more widely: several introductory courses; the Greeks to the present in the interdisciplinary Freshman Honors Program; advanced composition; contemporary poetry; British literature from 1900 to the present, an occasional special topics course such as Frankenstein's Children. Lately, I've been working on Charles Willson Peale, the Wister Family, and the history of La Salle's campus ; as appropriate, I include these topics in my courses. I also serve as director of the university's Undergraduate Student Research Program and as curator of the Connelly Library's Wister Family Special Collection.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY:
As one of the supervisory editors of the twenty-one volume Cornell Wordsworth Series , I work (here and in Grasmere , England ) on things Wordsworthian, both textually and critically. Book-length publications include editions for Cornell University Press of William Wordsworth's The Ruined Cottage and the Pedlar (1979, reprinted 1989) , of his Lyrical Ballads (1992, reprinted 1996), and of his Excursion (forthcoming). My edition of Owen Wister's Romney was published by Penn State Press in 2001. Published articles include work on Lawrence Ferlinghetti, William Logan Fisher, Edward Hicks, Rolf Hochhuth, Samuel Johnson, Charles Willson Peale, T. H. White, Frances Anne Wister, Owen Wister, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, and nineteenth-century travel literature. Work in progress includes an edition of the collected poetry of Owen Wister.