'Longfellow's Imaginative Engagement: The Works of His Late Career'

Lecture by Jeffrey Hotz filmed at Longfellow House- Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site on July 28, 2022 at 6pm.

Jeffrey Hotz is professor of English and chair of the English Department at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania. He has written two academic books: Longfellow's Imaginative Engagement: The Works of His Late Career (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, March 2022) and Divergent Visions, Contested Spaces: The Early United States through the Lens of Travel (Routledge, 2006). In 2015, he was awarded the Diana Korzenik Research Fellowship from the Friends of the Longfellow House. This spring 2022, he received a grant from the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education to pursue archival research on the late-career works of the Fireside Poets: William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), John Greenleaf Whittier (1809-1892), Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809-1894), and James Russell Lowell (1819-1892).

Jeff credits his interest in archival research to the encouragement and guidance of Christine (Chris) Wirth, retired archivist at the Longfellow House; the generosity of Diana Korzenik and the Friends of the Longfellow House; and the work of the current and previous staff of the Longfellow House, including current archivist, Kate Hanson-Plass.