Jean H. Hagstrum (25 March 1913 in Saint Paul, Minnesota[1] – 5 November 1995 in Tucson, Arizona) was John C. Shaffer Professor Emeritus of English at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
Hagstrum taught at Northwestern from 1941 to 1981, was a distinguished lecturer of 18th century and Romantic literature.
He managed the issue of the "Community of Scholars" report and directed one of the first Alumni Colleges on the subject of "Sex and Sensibility.
[3] He was the author of several books including Esteem Enlivened by Desire: The Couple from Homer to Shakespeare, which earned him the Aldo Scaglione Prize for distinguished achievement by the Modern Language Association.
He was also the guest of honor at the 1995 convention of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.