James Basker
{{Short description|American scholar}}
James G. Basker is an American scholar, writer, and educational leader. He is president of the Gilder Lehrman Institute and Richard Gilder Professor of Literary History at Barnard College, Columbia University.
Biography
He studied English at Harvard College (Phi Beta Kappa) and Cambridge University, and graduated from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, with a D. Phil in English.{{Cite web|title=James G. Basker - Oxbridge Academic Programs|url=https://www.stmintz.com/playground/jb/oxbridge.html|access-date=2020-08-04|website=www.stmintz.com}} Basker is currently the Richard Gilder Professor in Literary History at Barnard College,{{Cite magazine|last=Cep|first=Casey|title=The Long War Against Slavery|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/27/the-long-war-against-slavery|access-date=2020-08-04|magazine=The New Yorker|date=17 January 2020 |language=en-us}} Columbia University, having previously taught at Harvard, Cambridge and NYU.{{cite web|url=http://www.barnard.edu/faculty/profiles/basker_j.html|title=James Basker|publisher=Barnard College profile|accessdate=31 January 2011}} He is also the president of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, founder of the Oxbridge Academic Programs and more recently of Oxford Academia,{{Cite web |date=2018-12-08 |title=About {{!}} Oxford Academia |url=https://oxfordacademia.com/about/ |access-date=2024-11-19 |language=en-US}} a fellow of the Society of American Historians, and a member of the American Antiquarian Society. He was elected to the board of the American Association of Rhodes Scholars in 2007.{{Cite web|title=The Association of American Rhodes Scholars - Relationship Science|url=https://relationshipscience.com/organization/the-association-of-american-rhodes-scholars-958543|access-date=2020-08-04|website=relationshipscience.com}}
Publications
Basker’s scholarly work focuses on 18th Century literature, specifically the life and writings of Samuel Johnson and the history of slavery and abolition.
- American Antislavery Writings: Colonial Beginnings to Emancipation, New York, NY: The Library of America, 2012.{{Cite book|last=Basker, James G. 1952-|title=American antislavery writings : colonial beginnings to emancipation|date=2012|publisher=Library of America|isbn=978-1-59853-196-1|oclc=820378848}}
- Amazing Grace: An Anthology of Poems About Slavery, 1660-1810. Yale University Press, 2002.{{Cite book|title=Amazing grace : an anthology of poems about slavery, 1660-1810|others=Basker, James G.|year = 2002|isbn=0-300-09172-9|location=New Haven|oclc=49743685}}
- Early American Abolitionists: A Collection of Anti-slavery Writings, 1760-1820. The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, New York, 2005.{{Cite book|title=Early American abolitionists : a collection of anti-slavery writings 1760-1820|date=2005|publisher=Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History|others=Basker, James G., Ahlstrom, Justine.|isbn=1-932821-06-6|location=New York|oclc=62205412}}
- Why Documents Matter: American Originals and Historical Imagination (Selections From the Gilder Lehrman Collection). The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, New York, 2008.{{Cite book|title=Why documents matter : American originals and the historical imagination : selections from the Gilder Lehrman collection|others=Basker, James G., Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.|year = 2005|isbn=1-932821-20-1|location=New York|oclc=60585761}}
- Tobias Smollett, Critic and Journalist . University of Delaware Press, 1988.{{Cite book|last=Basker, James G.|title=Tobias Smollett, critic and journalist|date=1988|publisher=University of Delaware Press|isbn=0-87413-311-4|location=Newark|oclc=15654091}}
- Tradition in Transition: Women Writers, Marginal Texts, and the Eighteenth-Century Canon. OUP Oxford, 1997.{{Cite book|title=Tradition in transition : women writers, marginal texts, and the eighteenth-century canon|date=1996|publisher=Clarendon Press|others=Ribeiro, Alvaro, 1947-, Basker, James G.|isbn=0-19-818288-0|location=Oxford|oclc=32013714}}
- The Adventures of Roderick Random (The Works of Tobias Smollett). University of Georgia Press, 2014.{{Cite book|last=Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771.|title=The adventures of Roderick Random.|date=15 January 2014 |isbn=978-0-8203-4603-8|edition=Paperback|location=Athens, Georgia|oclc=910110418}}
Personal
Dr. Basker currently lives in New York City with his wife, Angela Vallot. They have two daughters, Anne and Katherine.
References
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External links
- [http://www.gilderlehrman.org/multimedia?page=1#!77692 To see Dr. Basker discuss American Antislavery Writings, click here.]
- {{C-SPAN|84129}}
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