Leslie Eckel, PhD

Honors Coordinator in English

Education

• PhD, Yale University
• MPhil, University of Oxford
• BA, Harvard University

Research Interests

• Nineteenth-Century American Literature
• Transatlantic Studies
• African American Literature and the Black Atlantic
• Utopian Literary Studies

Publications

Books

• The Edinburgh Companion to Atlantic Literary Studies, edited with Clare Frances Elliott. Edinburgh University Press, 2016. (paperback 2022)
• Atlantic Citizens: Nineteenth-Century American Writers At Work in the World. Edinburgh University Press, 2013. 

Journal Articles & Book Chapters

• “Emerson, Reluctant Feminist.” The Oxford Handbook of Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by Christopher Hanlon, Oxford University Press, 2024, pp. 589-604.
• “Emerson’s Transatlantic Networks.” Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by Mark Long and Sean Ross Meehan, Modern Language Association, 2018, pp. 169-174.
• “Oratory.” Walt Whitman in Context, edited by Joanna Levin and Edward Whitley, Cambridge University Press, 2018, pp. 98-107.
• “Crosscurrents of Black Utopianism: Martin R. Delany’s and Frederick Douglass’s Countercultural Atlantic.” The Edinburgh Companion to Atlantic Literary Studies, edited by Leslie Elizabeth Eckel and Clare Frances Elliott, Edinburgh University Press, 2016, pp. 131-145.
• “Radical Innocence: Margaret Fuller’s Utopian Rome.” Transatlantica, no. 2, 2015.
• “Oceanic Mirrors: Atlantic Literature and the Global Chaosmos.” Atlantic Studies, vol. 11, no. 1, 2014, pp. 128-144.
• “Gender.” Ralph Waldo Emerson in Context, edited by Wesley T. Mott, Cambridge University Press, 2014, pp. 188-195.

Film

• Margaret Fuller: Transatlantic Revolutionary. Directed by Jonathan Schwartz, performances by Megan Marshall, Charles Capper, Leslie Eckel, and Katie Kornacki, Risorgimento Productions, 2021.

Work in Progress

• Dwelling in Possibility: Atlantic Utopias and Countercultures (monograph)
• The Collected Writings of Margaret Fuller, edited with Sonia Di Loreto and Andrew Taylor, Edinburgh University Press, under contract (8-volume scholarly edition)
• Woman in the Nineteenth Century, a volume in The Collected Writings of Margaret Fuller, Edinburgh University Press (scholarly edition)
• “How to Fail Like a Utopian” (article)