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William C. Sharpe

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William C. Sharpe
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (1993)
Academic background
Education
Academic work
DisciplineLiterature, Cultural history
Institutions

William Chapman Sharpe[1] is an American literary scholar. He is a professor of English at Barnard College, Columbia University.[2]

Biography

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Sharpe received his B.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University and M.A. from the University of Oxford.[2] He joined the faculty of Barnard College in 1983, and his scholarship focuses on the art, culture, and literature of the modern cities, especially New York City.[1][3] He has written about subjects such as shadows or nighttime environments of cities as depicted in literature and arts as well as a cultural history on walking.[4][5]

Sharpe received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1993.[6]

Works

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Author

  • Unreal Cities: Urban Figuration in Wordsworth, Baudelaire, Whitman, Eliot, and Williams (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990)
  • New York Nocturne: The City After Dark in Art, Literature, and Photography (Princeton University Press, 2008) ISBN 0691133247
  • Grasping Shadows: The Dark Side  of Literature, Painting, Photography, and Film (Oxford University Press, 2017) ISBN 0190675276
  • The Art of Walking: A History in 100 Images (Yale University Press, 2023) ISBN 0300266847

Editor

  • The Longman Anthology of British Literature, General Editor David Damrosch, "The Victorian Age", ed. William C. Sharpe and Heather Henderson (Longman, 1999) ISBN 0205655262

References

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  1. ^ a b "Professor William Sharpe First Barnard Professor Honored with Fulbright Visiting Professor Award". Barnard College. Retrieved 2022-06-17.
  2. ^ a b "William Sharpe | Barnard College". barnard.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-17.
  3. ^ "William Chapman Sharpe discusses his book New York Nocturne". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2022-06-17.
  4. ^ "Ask About New York at Night". The New York Times. December 29, 2008. Retrieved June 16, 2022.
  5. ^ "Walk This Way." Exploring the cultural history of walking.
  6. ^ "William C. Sharpe". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-06-17.