About James D. Garrison
James D. Garrison was an American professor and writer.
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
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