John Seelye
Professor
John Seelye is Graduate Research Professor of American Literature at UF. Before moving to Gainesville in 1984, he was Distinguished Alumni Service Professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and had also taught at the University of Connecticut and the University of California, Berkeley. Seelye received his BA from Wesleyan in 1953 and his PhD from the Claremont Graduate School in 1961.
Professor Seelye’s published work includes scholarship, criticism, and fiction, among which are Melville: The Ironic Diagram (Northwestern, 1970), The True Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Northwestern 1970), The Kid (Viking, 1972), Prophetic Waters: The River in Early American Life and Literature (Oxford, 1900), and Beautiful Machine: Rivers and the Republican Plan, 1755–1825 (Oxford, 1991).
Professor Seelye has received a Guggenheim and two NEH Fellowships for his ongoing work on the river in American culture. During 1985–86 he was in residence at the American Antiquarian Society as an NEH Fellow. Seelye has been a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Professor and since 1979 the general editor of the Penguin American Library.
Contact
- office: Turlington Hall 4328
- voice: (352) 392-6650, ext. 257
- fax: (352) 392-0860
- email: <jseelye@english.ufl.edu>