James D. Garrison

James D. Garrison is an American literary scholar and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. His research primarily focuses on 18th-century British literature, rhetoric, and intersections between literature and law.

Education and Career Garrison earned his B.A. from Stanford University and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He serves as a professor in the Department of English at UT Austin, where he has received recognition for teaching excellence.Faculty profile at UT Austin

Publications

Dryden and the Tradition of Panegyric (1975)

A Dangerous Liberty: Translating Gray's Elegy (2009)

The American Sublime: The Genealogy of a Poetic Genre (2018)

Research Interests

18th-century British literature

History of rhetoric

Law and literature

Honors

University Distinguished Teaching Professor, UT Austin