Debartolo Chair in the Liberal Arts, University of Southflorida 1986-

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DeBartolo Chair in the Liberal Arts, University of SouthFlorida 1986- .

MA, PhD, LittD (Cambridge), DLitt (Bristol), FRHistS.

Has held fulltime teaching positions at Cambridge, London, Wales and Bristol.

Formerly Fellow of SidneySussexCollege, Cambridge, and Visiting Fellow at ChristChurch, Oxford.

Took part in all twenty DeBartolo Conferences in Eighteenth-Century Studies, 1987-2006.

President, British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 1982-84; and of the Johnson Society of Lichfield, 1982-83.

Author with Paul Baines of Edmund Curll, Bookseller (Oxford University Press, 2007), and a comprehensive bibliography of Curll’s publications, now nearing completion. Author of several scholarly articles on Curll in major literary and bibliographic journals.

Current publications: (ed. and contributor), The Cambridge Companion to Alexander Pope (Cambridge University Press, 2007). Articles including “George Parker, Defoe and the Whitefriars Trade”, The Library, 8 (2007), 33-59. Essays in Cambridge Companions to Henry Fielding and Daniel Defoe.

Forthcoming: Producing the Eighteen-Century Book (contributor and co-editor with Laura Runge)

Under review: Documenting Eighteenth-Century Satire.

In progress: Alexander Pope: A Political Biography (Pickering and Chatto).

Recent publications include: edition of Pride and Prejudice (Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen, 2006); Pope and the Destiny of the Stuarts (Oxford University Press, 2005); The Alexander Pope Encyclopedia(Greenwood, 2004); andEssays on Pope (Cambridge University Press, paperback edition, 2006).

Other work includes studies of the book world such as Grub Street (1972); “Introduction: The Writer and Society” in The Context of English Literature: The Eighteenth Century (Methuen, 1978); “Books, Readers and Patrons” in From Dryden to Johnson, New Pelican Guide to English Literature (1982);“Classics and Chapbooks” in Books and their Readers in Eighteenth Century England(1982); Literature and Popular Culture in Eighteenth-Century England (1985). Co-Editor with John Yolton, Roy Porter,and Barbara Maria Stafford, The Blackwell Companion to the Enlightenment (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992), entries including “Historiography”, “Augustanism”, “Profession of Letters”, “Coffee-Houses”, “Encyclopedias”, “Printing”, “Poetry”, “Essay”.

Associate Editor,The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed. C. Matthew and B. Harrison (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), many entries including Joseph Addison, Mary Berry, Frances Burney, and Samuel Johnson. Contributor to The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature; The Dictionary of Literary Biography; The Cambridge Cultural History; The Penguin Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century iatory;HHistory; The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism; The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English; St James Guide to Biography.

Contributor to journals such as London Review of Books, Observer, Spectator, New York Times Book Review. Over seventy articles and reviews in TLS (1972-2008).