Meredith L. McGill is a Professor of English. Her research and teaching focuses on American literature, book and media history, and poetry and poetics. She is the author of American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1837-1853 (2003; repr. 2007) a study of nineteenth-century American resistance to tight control over intellectual property. She has edited two collections of essays: Taking Liberties with the Author (2013), which explores the persistence of the author as a shaping force in literary criticism, and The Traffic in Poems: Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Transatlantic Exchange (2008), in which a variety of scholars model ways of understanding nineteenth-century poetry within a transatlantic frame.
She co-directs the Black Bibliography Project with Jacqueline Goldsby (Yale University). In 2022, the BBP was awarded a significant grant from the Mellon Foundation to support the "implementation phase" of the project. You can read more about this project and the field of Black Bibliography itself in a special issue of the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (Summer 2022); the introduction she co-wrote with Jacqueline Goldsby is open access.