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evidence: NOTOC. Edward Mendelson -LRB- born 1946 -RRB- is a professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University .. Columbia University. Columbia University. He is the literary executor of the Estate of W. H. Auden and the author or editor of several books about Auden 's work , including Early Auden -LRB- 1981 -RRB- and Later Auden -LRB- 1999 -RRB- .. literary executor. literary executor. W. H. Auden. W. H. Auden. He is also the author of The Things That Matter  : What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say About the Stages of Life -LRB- 2006 -RRB- .. , about nineteenth - and twentieth-century novels , and Moral Agents  : Eight Twentieth-Century American Writers -LRB- 2015 -RRB- .. He has edited standard editions of works by W. H. Auden , including Collected Poems -LRB- 1976 ; 2nd edn .. W. H. Auden. W. H. Auden. 1990 ; 3rd edn. , 2007 -RRB- , The English Auden -LRB- 1977 -RRB- , Selected Poems -LRB- 1979 , 2nd edn. , 2007 -RRB- , As I Walked Out One Evening -LRB- selected light verse , 1995 -RRB- , and the continuing Complete Works of W. H. Auden -LRB- 1986 -- -RRB- .. W. H. Auden. W. H. Auden. His work on Thomas Pynchon includes Pynchon  : A Collection of Critical Essays -LRB- 1978 -RRB- and numerous essays , including `` The Sacred , the Profane , and The Crying of Lot 49 -LRB- 1975 ; reprinted in the 1978 collection -RRB- and `` Gravity 's Encyclopedia '' -LRB- in Mindful Pleasures  : Essays on Thomas Pynchon .. Thomas Pynchon. Thomas Pynchon. The Crying of Lot 49. The Crying of Lot 49. The latter essay introduced the critical category of `` encyclopedic narrative , '' further elaborated in a later essay , `` Encyclopedic Narrative from Dante to Pynchon '' .. encyclopedic narrative. Encyclopedic novel. He is the editor of annotated editions of novels by Thomas Hardy , George Meredith , Arnold Bennett , H. G. Wells , and Anthony Trollope .. Thomas Hardy. Thomas Hardy. George Meredith. George Meredith. Arnold Bennett. Arnold Bennett. H. G. Wells. H. G. Wells. Anthony Trollope. Anthony Trollope. With Michael Seidel he co-edited Homer to Brecht ; The European Epic and Dramatic Traditions -LRB- 1977 -RRB- .. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015 .. American Academy of Arts and Sciences. American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature , and was the first Isabel Dalhousie Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh .. Royal Society of Literature. Royal Society of Literature. Before teaching at Columbia , he was an associate professor of English at Yale University and a visiting associate professor of English at Harvard University .. Yale University. Yale University. Harvard University. Harvard University. He received a B.A. from the University of Rochester -LRB- 1966 -RRB- and a Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University -LRB- 1969 -RRB- .. University of Rochester. University of Rochester. Johns Hopkins University. Johns Hopkins University. Since 1986 he has written about computing , software , and typography and is a contributing editor of PC Magazine .. PC Magazine. PC Magazine