Lawrence Buell (academic)

Lawrence Ingalls Buell (born 1939) is Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature Emeritus at Harvard University, specialist on antebellum American literature and a pioneer of Ecocriticism. He is the 2007 recipient of the Jay Hubbell Medal for Lifetime Achievement in American Literary studies, the "highest professional award that the American Literature Section of the MLA can give." He won the 2003 Warren-Brooks Award for outstanding literary criticism for his 2003 book on Ralph Waldo Emerson. His ''Writing for an Endangered World'' won the 2001 John G. Cawelti Award for the best book in the field of American Culture Studies. He retired from Harvard in 2011. Provided by Wikipedia