Philip Gould researches and writes about early American literature and culture, transatlantic theory and history, and antebellum American literature and politics. He has written books on such subjects American historical fiction, antislavery writing in the eighteenth century, and the Loyalist view of the American Revolution

My research focuses on the relations between literature and culture in both the 18th and 19th centuries, with a focus on British America, the early American republic, and the transatlantic field of Anglo-America.

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Writing the Rebellion: Loyalists and the Literature of Politics in British America (Oxford University Press, 2013)

Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (Harvard University Press, 2003)

Covenant and Republic: Historical Romance and the Politics of Puritanism (Cambridge University Press, 1996); paperback, 2005.

Israel J. Kapstein Professor of English, 2016--

Council Member, Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture

Nicholas Brown Professor of Oratory and Belles Lettres, 2012-2016

Society of Fellows, American Antiquarian Society, 2005--present

Editorial Board, Early American Literature, 2004--2010

Editorial Board, American Literary History, 2005--present

Editorial Board, American Literature, 1999-2001.

American Antiquarian Society Fellowship, winter 2000

William A. Dyer Jr. Chair in the Humanities, 1997-1999

John Nicholas Brown Center Fellowship, summer 1997

Dissertation Fellowship, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1992

Excellence in Teaching Award, The Graduate School, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1992

Harry Hayden Clark Prize, Outstanding Graduate Student in American Literature Program, Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1992

George B. Hill/Therese Mueller Creative Writing Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1988

George B. Hill/Therese Mueller Creative Writing Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1987

Modern Language Association

Society of Early Americanists

American Studies Association

American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies

My teaching includes eighteenth-century Anglo-American literature, nineteenth-century American literature, the early American novel, early American narrative, literature of the Revolution, Civil War literature and culture, the early republic, and special topics in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literature.