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As Director of Writing, Professor Meehan works with faculty and students on teaching and learning writing across the curriculum, and mentoring students in editing and publishing the , which publishes exemplary student writing that emerges from the core requirements of 缅北强奸鈥檚 writing program. As a teacher of writing and literature and a co-director of the Cromwell Center for Teaching and Learning, Professor Meehan cultivates the art of inventive reading and thinking that Emerson locates in the rhetorical foundations of liberal education. In Spring 2023, the CTL organized the series "Learning about Machine Learning" to inquire into the uses and limtis of AI tools for teaching and learning. Further engaging this topic in public conversations, Professor Meehan has published two articles in Inside Higher Ed, and He has inncorporated reading and assignments on AI in his composition classes.

Every semester he teaches an English 101 course subtitled 鈥淭he Gutenberg Progenies,鈥� an exploration of the intersections of writing and technology from Frankenstein to Google. You can browse the course web site and blog ()to see what he and his students have been reading and writing. Other courses include , , , and , a new course that focuses on classical rhetoric and documentary film. 

On campus, Professor Meehan has served on the Curriculum Committee, the Assessment Committee, and Tenure and Promotion, as well as chair of the Humanities division, chair of the Faculty Council, chair of the President鈥檚 Task Force on Safety, Social Media, and Campus Culture, and is a past president of 缅北强奸鈥檚 chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. 

His scholarship focuses on the legacy and lessons of Ralph Waldo Emerson, America鈥檚 first public intellectual and arguably its greatest essayist. Emerson, he contends, remains an important voice for articulating the values of liberal education, particularly of the sort thriving in small liberal arts colleges such as 缅北强奸. He has recently published two books on Emerson: Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (2018) and A Liberal Education in Late Emerson: Readings in the Rhetoric of Mind (2019). His work in progress, Against Originality, takes as its point of departure Emerson鈥檚 late essay 鈥淨uotation and Originality鈥� to reclaim the creative significance of unorginality across the arts and sciences. 

Education

Published Work

Books

. Camden House/Boydell & Brewer, 2019.

Recent scholarship has inspired growing interest in the later work of Ralph Waldo Emerson and a recognition that the conventional view of an aging and distant Emerson needs rethinking. Sean Meehan鈥檚 book reclaims three important but critically neglected aspects of the late Emerson鈥檚 鈥渕ind鈥�: his engagement with rhetoric, conceived as the organizing power of mind; his public engagement with the ideals of liberal education and higher education reform; and his intellectual relation to Walt Whitman, William James, Charles W. Eliot, and W. E. B. Du Bois.

 (edited with Mark Long). Modern Language Association of America, 2018.

Represents the first volume of essays to offer pedagogical approaches to Ralph Waldo Emerson, collecting a variety of strategies for teaching a broad range of Emerson鈥檚 works (essays, poetry, sermons, lectures) and topics (environmentalism, gender, philosophy, race, social reform). Leading Emerson scholars and teachers include Branka Arsi膰, Dan Beachy-Quick, Ronald A. Bosco, Michael P. Branch, Jean Ferguson Carr, Leslie Eckel, Christoph Irmscher, Saundra Morris, and Wes Mott.

 University of Missouri Press, 2008.

Both photography and autobiography involve a tension between disclosing and concealing their means of production: a chemical process for one, the writing process for the other. Professor Meehan examines how four major authors鈥擱alph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, and Walt Whitman鈥攚ere well aware of this tension and explored it in their work. By examining the implications of early photography in their writings, he shows how each engaged the new visual medium, how photography mediated their conceptions of self-representation, and how their appropriation of photographic thinking created a new kind of autobiography.

Selected Writing

• 鈥淓merson鈥檚 Late Styles.鈥� The New Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ed. Michael Jonik (forthcoming).

• 鈥溾�榃hat is it, then, between us?鈥� Whitman鈥檚 Elemental Media.鈥� Co-authored with John Durham Peters. Oxford Handbook of Walt Whitman. Ed. Kenneth M. Price and Stefan Sch枚berlein (2024).
• Inside Higher Ed (opinion). August 16, 2023.

• Inside Higher Ed (opinion). January 30, 2023.  

• 鈥淭he Mediacy of 鈥榃orks and Days鈥�: From McLuhan to Emerson.鈥� Emerson Society Papers (Spring 2020).

• 鈥淭he Environment of Liberal Education: Emerson, Berry, and the Rhetoric of Commonplaces.鈥� ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (2019).

• 鈥淓verything Has Two Handles: Late Emerson and the Rhetoric of Metonymy.鈥� ESQ (2017).

• 鈥淓ssaying with Emerson.鈥� Emerson Society Papers (Spring 2017).

• 鈥淢etonymies of Mind: Ralph Waldo Emerson, William James, and the Rhetoric of Liberal   Education.鈥� Philosophy and Rhetoric (Fall 2016).

• 鈥淓cology and Imagination: Emerson, Thoreau, and the Nature of   Metonymy.鈥� Criticism (Spring 2013).

• 鈥淓ducation after an Earthquake: Emerson鈥檚 Lessons in Panic and   Pedagogy.鈥� Pedagogy (Spring 2011). 

• 鈥溾�楴ature鈥檚 Stomach鈥�: Emerson, Whitman, and the Poetics of Digestion.鈥� Walt Whitman   Quarterly Review (Winter 2011).

• 鈥溾�榊ou Are the Book鈥檚 Book鈥�: Robert Richardson鈥檚 Emersonian Workshop.鈥� Pedagogy (Winter   2010).

• 鈥淧丑辞迟辞驳谤补辫丑测.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism. Oxford University Press, 2010.

• 鈥淭ext Minding.鈥� Digital Humanities Quarterly (Spring 2009).

• 鈥淧encil of Nature: Thoreau鈥檚 Photographic Register.鈥� Criticism. (Winter 2006).

• 鈥淟iving Learning: Lessons from Emerson鈥檚 School.鈥� Emerson Society Papers (Fall 2006)

• 鈥淓merson鈥檚 Photographic Thinking.鈥� Arizona Quarterly (Summer 2006).

• 鈥淪pecimen Daze: Whitman鈥檚 Photobiography.鈥� Biography (Fall 1999).

Work in Progress

• Against Originality: A Rhetoric for Renovation in the Arts and Sciences

Scholarly And Teaching Interests

• Creative Nonfiction and the Essay
• Environmental Writing
• Literature and Media; Documentary
• Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture
• Rhetoric and Liberal Education

Honors And Affiliations

• Emerson Society
• Phi Beta Kappa: Member and Past President of 缅北强奸鈥檚 Theta chapter
• Ralph Waldo Emerson Memorial Association Fellow, Houghton Library, Harvard University (2005-2006)
• Presidential Fellow, University of Iowa 
• Magna Cum Laude, Princeton University