Rate My Professor Chris Hanlon

Christopher Hanlon is Professor of U.S. literature in the School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies at Arizona State University’s New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences on the West campus. He joined ASU in 2014 after serving as Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor at Eastern Illinois University from 2001 to 2013. Earlier appointments include visiting professorships at Harlaxton College in the United Kingdom and graduate and teaching roles at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and North Carolina State University.

Hanlon holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (2001), an M.A. in American Literature from North Carolina State University (1994), and a B.A. in English from the University of Massachusetts Lowell (1993). His research focuses on nineteenth-century American literature, with particular emphasis on Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, transatlantic literary relations, sectionalism, and memory. He is the author of Emerson’s Memory Loss: Originality, Communality, and the Late Style (Oxford University Press, 2018) and America’s England: Antebellum Literature and Atlantic Sectionalism (Oxford University Press, 2013). He edited The Oxford Handbook of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Oxford University Press, 2024) and is preparing an edition of Emerson’s Natural History of Intellect under contract with Oxford University Press. His articles have appeared in journals including American Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, J19, and Common-place. Hanlon serves as editor of The Dial, the journal of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society, and as co-editor of the book series Interventions in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture for Edinburgh University Press and of American Literary History Review for Oxford University Press. He has contributed chapters to multiple edited volumes on Emerson, the Civil War, and transatlantic studies.