Leland S Person

Leland S. Person is Professor and Head of the English Department at the University of Cincinnati. He previously taught at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, and Indiana University, Fort Wayne. His is the author of Henry James and the Suspense of Masculinity , Aesthetic Headaches: Women and Masculine Poetics in Poe, Melville, and Hawthorn , and many articles on nineteenth-century American writers, especially Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, Henry James...See more

Leland S. Person is Professor and Head of the English Department at the University of Cincinnati. He previously taught at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, and Indiana University, Fort Wayne. His is the author of Henry James and the Suspense of Masculinity , Aesthetic Headaches: Women and Masculine Poetics in Poe, Melville, and Hawthorn , and many articles on nineteenth-century American writers, especially Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, Henry James, and James Fenimore Cooper. He recently coedited (with Robert K. Martin) a collection of essays, Roman Holidays: American Writers and Artists in Nineteenth-Century Italy . See less