en 1973 pour son travail sur Algernon Swinburne en tant que « Meilleure critique de poésie de l'année » ;
en 1989 le Distinguished Scholar Award par la Keats-Shelley Association of America
en 1989 le Distinguished Scholar Award par la Byron Society of America
en 1994 la Wilbur Cross Medal, de Yale.
En 2002, il reçoit trois récompenses majeures :
Premier prix Richard W. Lyman Award for Distinguished Contributions to Humanities Computing, National Humanities Center
James Russell Lowell Award
Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award.
Publications
Jerome McGann a publié deux livres notables en 1983 : The Romantic Ideology et A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism. Il a également écrit quatre livres de poésie dont Air Heart Sermons (1976) et Four Last Poems (1996). De 1993 à 2008, il met en ligne de l'intégrale des œuvres de Dante Gabriel Rossetti[1]. Il est également le fondateur de Applied Research in Patacriticism(en), un laboratoire informatique de recherche appliqué à la littérature.
Autres ouvrages
Fiery Dust: Byron's Poetic Development. University of Chicago Press, 1969
Swinburne: An Experiment in Criticism. University of Chicago Press, 1972
The Romantic Ideology: A Critical Investigation. University of Chicago Press, 1983
A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism. University of Chicago Press, 1983
The Beauty of Inflections: Literary Investigations in Historical Method and Theory. Clarendon Press, 1985
Social Values and Poetic Acts. Harvard U. Press, 1987
Towards a Literature of Knowledge. Oxford U. Press and U. of Chicago Press, 1989
The Textual Condition. Princeton U. Press, 1991
Black Riders: The Visible Language of Modernism. Princeton UP, 1993
Byron: The Complete Poetical Works, 7 Vols. Clarendon Press, The Oxford English Texts series, 1980–1993
Poetics of Sensibility. A Revolution in Literary Style. Oxford UP, 1996
Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Game that Must be Lost. Yale UP, 2000
Radiant Textuality. Literature Since the World Wide Web. Palgrave/St Martins, 2001
Byron and Romanticism. Cambridge University Press, 2002
Algernon Charles Swinburne. Major Poems and Selected Prose. Yale UP, 2004
The Scholar's Art. Literary Studies in a Managed World. U. of Chicago Press, 2006
The Point is to Change It. Poetry and Criticism in the Continuing Present. U. of Alabama Press, 2007
Stephen Crane's The Black Riders and other lines, ed. with Afterword. Rice UP, Literature by Design series, 2009
Byron's Manfred. Pasdeloup Press, 2009
Are the Humanities Inconsequent? An Interpretation of Marx's Riddle of the Dog. Prickly Paradigm Press, 2009
Online Humanities Scholarship. The Shape of Things to Come, Rice UP, 2010
A New Republic of Letters. Memory and Scholarship in the Age of Digital Reproduction. Harvard University Press, 2014
