James F. English

Jim English is John Welsh Centennial Professor of English and Founding Director of the Price Lab for Digital Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. His main fields of research are the sociology and economics of culture; the history of literary studies as a discipline; and
contemporary British fiction, film, and television. His most recent book is a collection of essays coedited with Heather Love, Literary Studies and Human Flourishing (2023). His other books and edited volumes include The Global Future of English Studies (2012), A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction (2006), The Economy of Prestige: Prizes, Awards, and the Circulation of Cultural Value (2005), and Comic Transactions: Literature, Humor, and the Politics of Community in Twentieth-Century Britain (1994). He is currently writing Beauty by the Numbers, a book about the history of rating and ranking systems in literature and the arts.