James Chandler's research interests include British and Irish literature since the early Enlightenment, American cinema, the history of disciplines, and the relationship of literary criticism to film criticism. His books include England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism (University of Chicago Press, 1998), his study of literary historicism and its limits that won the Laing Prize at University of Chicago Press in 2000, and An Archaeology of Sympathy: The Sentimental Mode in Literature and Cinema (University of Chicago Press, 2013), which traces the formal foundations of modern narrative cinema to the early sentimentalist moment of literature and moral philosophy. Currently, he is finishing a book about practical criticism in literature and cinema. Chandler is the William K. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of English, Cinema and Media Studies, and the College at the University of Chicago.