Jerome John McGann (born July 22, 1937) is an American academic and textual scholar whose work focuses on the history of literature and culture from the late eighteenth century to the present.
Each defined the two large fields that have organized all his work, Romanticism (broadly conceived as an ongoing cultural enterprise) and Textual Studies.
Extrapolating the implications of his experimental editorial project The Rossetti Archive (1993–2008), McGann has published a large body of work -- it is ongoing -- on DH theory and method.
Since the turn of the century that work became part of the broad argument he has developed for the pertinence of philological and historical method in literary and cultural studies.
McGann has also written six books of poetry including Air Heart Sermons (1976) and Four Last Poems (1996), both published by Pasdeloup Press in Canada.