Randall Fuller grew up in a small Missouri town and migrated to New York to work in publishing before entering graduate school at Washington University in St. Louis. He came to KU as the inaugural Herman Melville Distinguished Professor of American Literature in 2017.
Books in order of publication:
Emerson’s Ghosts: Literature, Politics, and the Making of Americanists, Oxford University Press, 2007
The Business of Reflection: Hawthorne in His Notebooks, co-edited with Robert Milder, Ohio State University Press, 2009
From Battlefields Rising: How the Civil War Transformed American Literature, Oxford University Press, 2011
The Book That Changed America: How Darwin’s Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation, Viking Press, January 2017
Bright Circle: Five Remarkable Women in the Age of Transcendentalism, Oxford University Press, 2025
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