Brian McGrath

Brian McGrath is a specialist in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European literature and philosophy. At Clemson he regularly teaches courses in romanticism, the history of poetry and poetics, and aesthetic, literary, and rhetorical theory. He is the author of two monographs, Look Round for Poetry: Untimely Romanticisms (Fordham University Press, 2022) and The Poetics of Unremembered Acts: Reading, Lyric, Pedagogy (Northwestern University Press, 2013). He is currently at work on a new book about the poetics of hedging (literal hedges and rhetorical acts of hesitation). With Sara Guyer, he co-edits the Lit Z book series published by Fordham University Press. With Orrin N. C. Wang, he co-edits the Romantic Circles: Praxis Series journal.