Paul K. Saint-Amour is Associate Professor and Graduate Chair of English. He works on Victorian and modernist literature, with special interests in the novel, law, trauma, and visual culture studies. After receiving his B.A. from Yale and his Ph.D. from Stanford, he taught at Pomona College for ten years before joining the Penn faculty. He has been a fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center, the Center for the Humanities at Cornell, and the National Humanities Center. Saint-Amour's The Copywrights: Intellectual Property and the Literary Imagination (Cornell UP, 2003) won the MLA Prize for a First Book. His articles have appeared in Comparative Literature Studies, Diacritics, Henry James Review, James Joyce Quarterly, Modernism/Modernity, Nineteenth-Century Studies, Novel, Post 45, and a special “Counterfactuals” issue of Representations that he co-edited with Catherine Gallagher and Mark Maslan. Oxford UP's Modernist Literature and Cultures series published his edited volume, Modernism and Copyright, in 2010. 

A few years ago, Saint-Amour chaired a fact-finding panel initiated by the International James Joyce Foundation to study the permissions history and criteria of the Estate of James Joyce and the general problem of scholarly fair use. The panel produced a detailed FAQ, "James Joyce: Copyright, Fair Use, and Permissions." Saint-Amour is now heading up a Best Practices statement on scholarly fair use for the Modernist Studies Association, of which he is First Vice-President. 

Saint-Amour co-edits, with Jessica Berman, the Modernist Latitudes book series at Columbia UP. With Robert Spoo and Joseph Jenkins he is co-editing a special "Futures of Fair Use" issue of Law and Literature. He is currently at work on a book-length project entitled Archive, Bomb, Civilian: Modernism in the Shadow of Total War.

In Summer 2012 (June 18 thru July 20), Professor Saint-Amour will co-direct, with Professor Kevin Dettmar of Pomona College, an NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, "James Joyce's Ulysses: Text and Contexts," at Trinity College, Dublin.