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Education and Employment
Selected Fellowships, Grants, and Awards
William
Andrews Clark Fellow, UCLA, summer, 1974.
American
Philosophical Society Grants, 1975, 1980, and 1986.
Senior
Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1983.
American
Antiquarian Society Fellowship, 1987.
Fellow,
Institute for Advanced Studies,
John
Simon Guggenheim Fellow, calendar year 1991.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar on "Biography and the Uses of Biographical Evidence," summer 1992 and summer 1994.
Creative
Research Award,
Selected Honors
British Council Award, Best Book in the Humanities, 1990.
Nominee,
Who’s
Who Among America’s Teachers, 2000-
Outstanding
Service Award, Office of Multicultural Affairs, 2001.
Southern
American
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Great Teachers, 2001.
American
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Paula Backscheider Archival Fellowship, established 2001.
Member,
College of
Distinguished
Teaching Award, ODK Honorary Society, 2003.
World
Women’s Literature Center Award,
Works in Progress
Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel, under contract to Blackwell Publishers, Oxford
University Press.
Obsessed by the Novel.
Critical Books
Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
Reflections on Biography,
Spectacular Politics:
Theatrical Power and Mass Culture in Early Modern
Daniel Defoe:
His Life,
Daniel Defoe:
Ambition and Innovation,
A Being More Intense:
The Prose Works of Bunyan, Swift, and
Editorships
The Dictionary of Literary Biography: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama, 3 vols.
The Eighteenth-Century: A Current Bibliography, for English books, co-editor for 1983 and editor for
1984-86.
Eighteenth-Century Drama, 69 vols.
Books and Editions
A Companion to the Eighteenth-Century English Novel and Culture , co-edited with Catherine Ingrassia, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2005.
Revising Women:
Eighteenth-Century "Women's Fiction" and Social Engagement, ed.,
Selected Fiction and Drama of Eliza Haywood, ed.,
Popular Fiction by Women, 1660-1730: An Anthology, with John J. Richetti,
The Excursion by Frances Brooke, ed. with Hope D. Cotton,
The Intersections of the Public and Private Spheres in
Early Modern England, a special issue
of Prose Studies 18 (1995), with Tim Dykstal. Published separately as a book (London: Frank
Cass, 1996).
A Journal of the Plague Year,
The Family Instructor, an edition with introduction,
Moll Flanders:
The Making of a Criminal Mind,
The Plays of Samuel Foote, ed. (with Douglas Howard), 3 vols.
The Plays of Elizabeth Inchbald, ed., 2 vols.
The Plays of Charles Gildon, ed.
Probability, Time, and Space in Eighteenth-Century
Literature, ed.
An Annotated Bibliography of Twentieth-Century Studies
of Women and Literature, 1660-1800
(with Felicity Nussbaum and Philip Anderson),
Articles (forthcoming)
"Strange Lovers: Rowe, Colman, and the Novel" in a festschrift edited by George Justice and Albert Rivero.
“Shadowing Theatrical Change” in Redefining
Theatre History, ed. Peter Holland and Michael Cordner.
“The Paradigms of Popular Culture” in Gender
and Popular Culture, 1650-1750, ed. David Porter.
“Daniel Defoe, The Man in his Works” in The
“The Bluestockings” in Encyclopedia of
Women in World History, ed. Bonnie G. Smith.
Articles (published)
“Literary Culture As Immediate Reality” in A Companion to The Eighteenth-Century English Novel and Culture, ed. Paula Backscheider and Catherine Ingrassia (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2005): 504-538.
“Crusoe Among the Travelers” in Modern
Language Association Approaches to Teaching Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe,
ed. Maximillian E. Novak and Carl Fisher (New York: Modern Language
Association, 2005): 69-77.
“Behind City Walls: Restoration Actors in the
Drapers’ Company” in Theatre Survey 45 (2004): 75-87.
“Eighteenth-Century Women Poets” in The
Seven entries in Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography: Daniel Defoe, Eliza
Haywood, Mary Davys, William Bullock, George Powell, Elizabeth Barry, and Moll
King, (
“The Crime Wave and Moll Flanders”
in Moll Flanders, ed. Albert Rivero (
“Inverting the Image of Swift’s
‘Triumfeminate,’” Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies
4 (2004): 41-77.
“Fashioning Novels, Novelizing Fashions,”
in Eighteenth-Century Genre and Culture Serious Reflections on
Occasional Forms: Essays in Honor of J. Paul Hunter, ed. Dennis Todd and
Cynthia Wall (
“Honorary Subscriber: Daniel Defoe,” Edupage
(published by Educause), 10 January 1999.
“Looking Backward, Looking Forward: MLA Members
Speak.” PMLA, Special
Millennium Issue. 115 (2000): 2043-44.
“The Story of Eliza Haywood’s Novels: Caveats and Questions,”in The
Passionate Fictions Of Eliza Haywood, ed. Kirsten Saxton and Rebecca
Bocchicchio (
“Reflections on the Importance of Romantic
Drama,”
“The Shadow of an Author,” Eighteenth-Century
Fiction 11 (1998): 79-102.
“Daniel Defoe’s
"Roxana," Critical Essays on Daniel Defoe,
ed. Roger D. Lund, (Boston: G.K. Hall,
1997): 236-265.
"'Endless Aversion Rooted in the Soul': Divorce
in the 1690-1730 Theater," The Eighteenth-Century: Theory and
Interpretation 37 (1996): 99-135.
"Stretching the Form: Catherine Trotter Cockburn
and Other Failures," Theatre Journal 47 (1995): 443-58.
"Daniel Defoe and Early Modern
Intelligence," Journal of Intelligence and National Security 11
(1996): 1-21.
"The Cavalier Woman," Studies in
Eighteenth-Century Culture 24 (1995): 3-27.
"Bibliography of Defoe Criticism in the Far East:
"The Woman's Part: Defoe,
"Sex, Sin, and Ideology: The Drama's Gift to the Genesis of the
Novel," in Lumen 12 (1993): 1-15.
"Stalking the Data," Humanities 14:4
(July/August 1993): 16-19.
"Reports from an Eye-Witness: Defoe's
Letters," Eighteenth-Century Correspondences, ed. Alan T. McKenzie
(Athens: University of Georgia Press,
1993): 21-47.
"The Verse Essay, John Locke, and Defoe's Jure
Divino," ELH 55 (1988): 99-124.
"No Defense:
Defoe in 1703," PMLA 103 (1988): 274-84.
"Robert Harley to Daniel Defoe: A New Letter," Modern Language Review
83 (1988): 817-819.
"Women Writers and the Chains of Identity," Studies
in the Novel 19 (1987): 245-62.
"Defoe and the Clerks of Penicuik," Modern
Philology 84 (1987): 372-81.
"The Genesis of Roxana," The
Eighteenth Century: Theory and
Interpretation 27 (1986): 211-29
(lead article in special issue on gender and genre).
"Esteem in the Novels by Women," Fetter'd
or Free? British Women Novelists,
1670-1815, eds. Schofield and Macheski (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1986): 152-68.
"Defoe and the Geography of the Mind," The
First English Novelists: Essays in Understanding, ed. J. M. Armistead
(Knoxville: University of Tennessee
Press, 1985): 41-65.
"Defoe as Solitary Reader,"
"Jane Barker," A Dictionary of Women
Writers, 1660-1800, ed. Janet Todd (Totowa, NJ: Barnes & Noble, 1985): 38-39.
"Mary Davys," A Dictionary of Women
Writers, 1660-1800, ed. Janet Todd (Totowa, NJ: Barnes & Noble, 1985): 98-99.
"Defoe's Prodigal Sons," Studies in the
Literary Imagination 15 (1982): 3-18.
"John Russell to Daniel Defoe: Fifteen Unpublished Letters from
"Swift's Harley and the Nature of
Biography," Biography 5 (1982): 284-96.
"Cross-Purposes:
Defoe's History of the
"Personality and Biblical Allusion in Defoe's
Letters,"
"Defoe's Lady Credit," The
"Into All the World," ADE Bulletin 68
(1981): 17-20.
"Woman's Influence," Studies in the Novel
11 (1979): 3-22.
"
"She Seeks the Springs of Caesar'--Dryden's All
for Love," Enlightenment Essays 8 (1977): 3-21.
"Defoe's Women:
Snares and Prey," Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 5,
ed. Ronald C. Rosbottom (Madison: University
of Wisconsin Press, 1976): 103-20.
"Squeak in the Night: Updike's Couples" (with
"Introduction" and appendix to Defoe's A
Short Narrative of the Life of Marlborough, Augustan Reprint Society, no.
168 (Los Angeles: Clark Library, 1974): I-xvi and 51.
Review Essays
Of P. N. Furbank and W. R. Owens, A Political Biography of Daniel Defoe; John J. Richetti, The Life of Daniel Defoe; and Religious and Didactic Writings of Daniel Defoe (5 vols., multiple editors), forthcoming, Eighteenth-Century Studies.
Of Morris Brownell’s The Prime Minister of
Taste, Kathryn King’s Jane Barker, Exile, and Maximillian E.
Novak’s Daniel Defoe: Master of Fictions, Eighteenth-Century
Studies 36.1 (Fall 2002): 119-121.
“Eighteenth-Century Drama,” Year’s
Work in English Studies for 1996 (with Daniel Ennis, Amy Muse, and Nancy
Naugle), and for 1997 (with Diane Boyd and Daniel Ennis),
"Recent Studies in Restoration and
Eighteenth-Century Literature," Studies in English Literature (SEL)
31 (1991): 569-614.
Of P. N. Furbank and W. R. Owens's The Canonisation
of Defoe, Novel 24 (1990): 115-118.
Of The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, n.s. 3 and 4, Modern
Language Review 80 (1985): 681-84.
Of Laura Curtis's The Versatile Defoe and John
J. Perry's introduction to Defoe's Atalantis Major, The
Eighteenth-Century: A Current
Bibliography, n.s. 5 (1983): 404-406.
Of Paul Alkon's Defoe and Fictional Time and
Peter Earle's The World of
Recent Reviews
Of Nancy Armstrong, How Novels Think, forthcoming, Scriblerian.
Of Dana Y. Rabin, Identity, Crime, and Legal Responsibility in Eighteenth-Century England, forthcoming, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation.
Of Juliette Merritt’s Beyond Spectacle,
forthcoming, Eighteenth-Century Fiction.
Of Joseph Donohue’s introduction to The Cambridge History of British Theatre, 1660 to 1895, forthcoming, Scriblerian.
Of Ruth Perry’s Novel Relations,
forthcoming, Scriblerian.
Of Christine Gerrard’s Aaron Hill: The Muses
Projector, 1685-1750,
Of Diana and Michael
Of Catherine Burrough’s Women in British
Romantic Theatre: Drama, Performance, and Society, Nineteenth Century
Theatre and Film 30 (2003): 96-99.
Of George Justice and Nathan Tinker, eds. Women’s
Writing and the Circulation of Ideas: Manuscript Publication in
Of Jaqueline Pearson’s, Women’s Reading
in
Of Daisuke Takahashi’s In Search of Robinson
Crusoe and Tim Severin’s In Search of Robinson Crusoe, Washington
Post Book World (June 30- July 6 2002): 8-9.
Of Jim Springer Borck, Irving N. Rothman, Manuel
Schonhorn and Maximillian E. Novak’s (eds.), An Essay Upon Projects,
Analytical and Enumerative Bibliography 12 (2001): 139-41.
Of Castaway,
in The Chronicle of Higher Education 48, (2 February 2001) : B4.
Of Katherine Armstrong’s, Defoe: Writer as
Agent, Scriblerian, 33 (2001): 66-7.
Of Janet Todd’s (ed.), Aphra Behn Studies,
Modern Philology 96 (1999): 384-87.
Of Ian Watt’s, Myths of Modern Individualism:
Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan, Robinson Crusoe, Studies in the Novel 29
(1997): 262-264.
Of Richard Burt and John Michael Archer (eds.), Enclosure
Acts: Sexuality, Property, and Culture in Early Modern
Of Steven N. Zwicker, Lines of Authority: Politics
and English Literary Culture, 1649-1689,
Of Tom Keymer's
Of Madeleine Kahn's Narrative Transvestism, in Eighteenth-Century
Fiction 5 (1992): 376-378.
Of Marlies Danziger and Frank Brady's Boswell: The Great Biographer (1789-1795), Journal
of English and German Philology 90 (1991): 435-438.
Of Brian Hill's Robert Harley, Studies in
The Age of Johnson 4 (1991): 374-377.
Of Kristina Straub's Divided Fictions, Modern
Philology 87 (1989): 93-95.
Of N. H. Keeble's The Literary Culture of
Nonconformity, Eighteenth-Century Studies 22 (1988-89): 261-64.
Of Margaret Anne Doody's Frances Burney, ECCB
n.s. 14. (1988): 283-84.
Of Ian Bell's Defoe's Fiction, Modern
Language Studies 18 (1988): 201-202.
Other reviews in Eighteenth-Century Studies; South
Atlantic Review; Georgia Review; The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography; Scriblerian;
Seventeenth-Century News
Papers and Speeches (recent, selected)
“The Paradigms of Popular Culture,” University of Michigan International Symposium, Gender and Popular Culture, 1650-1750, October 2005.
“Shadowing Theatrical Change,”
“The Sounds in the Theatre,” Modern
Language Association, December 2004.
“Editing:
“Hanging On and Hanging In: Women’s
Struggle to Participate in Public Sphere Debate,” Plenary Address at
Daring Women of the Enlightenment Conference, February 2004.
“Women Poets and Enlightenment Culture,”
Northeastern American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, October 2002.
“At Our Mercy: Biographers and Their
Readers,” The
“Daniel Defoe in
“Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre,”
DeBartolo Lecturer, February 2001.
“Fashioning Novels,” American Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies, April 2000.
“Why We Care About Romantic Drama,”
Plenary Address, Romantic Drama: A Symposium,
“Doubt Everything? Women Writers and Familiar Answers,”
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, April 1998.
“The Shadow of an Author, The Shadow of a
Story,” Plenary Address, East Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies, October 1998.
“‘Her Heart Became a Force of
Nature’: Naming Aphra Behn,” Inauguration of Performance Theory
Ph.D. Program,
"Endless Aversion Rooted in the Soul,"
"Bangles and Water Rights: The Diversion of the
Early Novel," Kirby Lecture and plenary address, South Central American
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, March 1993.
"The Cavalier Woman," Presidential Address,
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, April 1993.
"Sex, Sin, and Ideology," plenary address,
Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 1991.
"The Self Besieg'd," Yale University Pope
Bicentennial Celebration, April 1988.
“Robinson Crusoe,” National Public
Radio’s “All Things Considered,” December 1986.
Professional Offices (selected)
Editorial Board, XVIII: New Perspectives on the
Eighteenth Century, 2001-
Eighteenth-Century
Women: Studies in Their Works, Lives, and Culture, 1997-
Advisory Board,
Advisory Editor, Eighteenth-Century Studies,
2002-
The
Eighteenth-Century Novel, 1999-
Studies in
the Novel, 1998-
Eighteenth-Century
Novels by Women, 1994-
Studies in
English Literature, 1993-
Augustan
Reprint Society, 1983-
Representative to the American Council of Learned
Societies, 1993-2003
Modern Language Association:
Member, Prize Committee for Outstanding Work of Bibliography, 2006-
Executive Committee for the Division, Comparative
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature, 1974-79
Executive Committee for the Division, Restoration and
Early Eighteenth-Century Literature, 1979-83
Member, Steering Committee, 1980-82; Chair, 1981-82
Member, Delegate Assembly, 1976-77, 1980-82, 1986-89
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies:
Founding Member, Prize Committee for Editing and
Translation Fellowship, 2004-
Member, Jenkins Biography Prize Committee, 1998-2001
Chair, Jenkins Biography Prize Committee, 1997-98
Past president and Executive Board member, 1993-94
President, 1992-93
Vice-president, 1990-1992
Representative to the Committee on Regional Societies,
1977-81
Member, Nominating Committee, 1978
Northeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies:
Chair, Founders' Committee
Chair of the Program Committee for inaugural meeting
Member, Program Committee, 1978-81
Administrative Assignments (selected)
At
Chair, Oversight Committee, Faculty Development and
Technology Consortium, 1993-
Member, Distinguished Professor Committee, 1997-2000, 2005-
Chair, Screening Committee for British Romanticism position, 2005-2006
Member, Selection Committee for Creative Research
Awards, 2004-
Member, AU Bookstore Advisory Committee, 2004-
Member, Senate Library Committee, 2001-2003
Member, Educational Technology Advisory Council, 2001-
Member, Search Committee for Department Head,
2000-2001
Member, University Housing Committee, 1999-2002
Member, Graduate Committee, 1993-1995, 1998-2001,
2004-2005
Chair, Graduate Recruiting Committee, 1997
Member, Humanities Fellowship Committee, 1994-2000
Member, President's Task Force on Student Affairs,
1996-1997
Member, Provost’s Committee on Educational
Enhancement, 1997-2000
Chair, Retention Committee, 1996-1998
Chair, Search Committee for Director of the
Chair, Search Committee for Coordinator of Academic
Support Services
Member, University Priorities Committee