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{{Short description|Canadian literary critic}}
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'''Marc Shell''', born 1947 in Montreal, is a [[Canadians|Canadian]] [[literary critic]]. He has interests in nationalism and kinship. He serves as Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English at [[Harvard University]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://heymancenter.org/people/marc-shell/ |title=Marc Shell |publisher=heymancenter.org |access-date=November 16, 2017}}</ref> Over 5 of his publications have each been cited over 100 times.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C44&q=Marc+Shell&btnG= |title=Marc Shell |access-date=November 16, 2017}}</ref>

==Education==
Shell studied at [[McGill University]] and [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], and earned a B.A. from [[Stanford University]] and a Ph.D. from [[Yale University]]. Before Harvard, he taught at [[University at Buffalo, The State University of New York|The State University of New York (Buffalo)]] and the [[University of Massachusetts Amherst|University of Massachusetts (Amherst)]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://societyoffellows.columbia.edu/speakers/marc-shell/ |title=Marc Shell |publisher=columbia.edu |access-date=November 16, 2017}}</ref> Shell received a [[MacArthur Fellowship]].

=="New Economic Criticism"==
Shell is one of the forerunners, along with Jean-Joseph Goux and others, of the literary-critical movement that has been dubbed 'New Economic Criticism '. His contributions to the study of relations between [[linguistics|linguistic]] and [[literature|literary]] economies are encompassed in several books,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://societyoffellows.columbia.edu/speakers/marc-shell/ |title= including}}</ref>

* ''The Economy of Literature'' ([[Johns Hopkins University Press]] 1978).
* ''Money, Language, and Thought: Literary and Philosophical Economies from the Medieval to the Modern Era'' (UC Berkeley 1982).
* ''Art and Money'' ([[University of Chicago Press]] 1995).

Forthcoming works in this area include the following:
* [http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/45cgt5gw9780252033667.html ''Wampum and the Origin of American Money''] ([[University of Illinois Press]], 2013).
* ''The Painting in the Trash Bin: [[Otis Kaye]] and the Perplexities of Art'' (Chicago, forthcoming).
* ''The End of [[Kinship]]: "[[Measure for Measure]]," [[Incest]], and the Ideal of Universal Siblinghood'' (Stanford 1988).
* ''Children of the Earth: Literature, Politics, and [[Nationhood]]'' (Oxford 1993).
* ''Elizabeth's Glass: With "The Glass of the Sinful Soul" (1544) by [[Elizabeth I]] and "Epistle Dedicatory" and "Conclusion" (1548) by [[John Bale]]'' (Nebraska 1995).

'''Multilingualism:''' Shell is the co-founder of Harvard's Longfellow Institute, which is devoted to the study of Non-English American literatures, relevant books about translation, language policy and bilingualism that include:

* ''The Multilingual Anthology of American Literature'' (NYU ed. 2000)
* ''American Babel: Literatures of the United States from Abnaki to Zuni'' (Harvard ed. 2002)

'''Disability studies:''' Shell's books in disability studies include works about [[paralysis]] and [[stuttering]].

* ''[[Polio]] and its Aftermath'' (Harvard 2005)
* ''Stutter'' (Harvard 2006)

''' Canada and the United States: '''Shell's writings about Canada and the United States include:

* ''French-Canadian / American Literary Relations'' (McGill French Canada Studies Centre 1968)
* ''[[Grand Manan]]: or, A Short History of North America'' (McGill-Queens 2015 forthcoming)

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~mshell/ Marc Shell]

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