Robert Moss Markley



Robert MarkleyPresent Position W. D. and Sara E. Trowbridge Professor and Head, Department of English, University of IllinoisEditor, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation Editor, AnthropoScene, The SLSA Book Series (Penn State University Press)Editor, Mariner10: Educational Multimedia (University of Pennsylvania Press)Address Department of English608 South Wright StreetUniversity of IllinoisUrbana, IL 61801 e-mail: rmarkley@illinois.eduAffiliations: Center for East Asian and Pacific StudiesUnit for Criticism and TheoryWriting StudiesEducation Vassar College, A.B., cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa (1974) University of Pennsylvania, M.A. (1976); Ph.D. (1980)Dissertation: “The Language of Comedy from Fletcher to Congreve” Director: Arthur H. Scouten Publications: BooksKim Stanley Robinson. Modern Masters of Science Fiction Series. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2019.The Far East and the English Imagination 1600-1730. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. Fallen Languages: Crises of Representation in Newtonian England, 1660-1740. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993.Two-Edg’d Weapons: Style and Ideology in the Comedies of Etherege, Wycherley, and Congreve. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988.Publications: Books EditedWriting China: Essays on the Amherst Embassy (1816) and Sino British Cultural Relations. Ed. Peter Kitson and Robert Markley. London: Boydell & Brewer, 2016.Virtual Realities and Their Discontents. Edited Robert Markley. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.From Renaissance to Restoration: Metamorphoses of the Drama. Coedited with Laurie Finke. Cleveland: Bellflower Press, Case Western Reserve University, 1984.Kierkegaard and Literature: Irony, Repetition, and Criticism. Coedited with Ronald Schleifer. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1984. Publications: MultimediaRed Planet: Scientific and Cultural Encounters with Mars. Coauthored with Michelle Kendrick, Harrison Higgs, and Helen Burgess. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. [This is the first scholarly title authored for DVD-ROM. Credits: Primary author and researcher; principal investigator on all grants; photography, multimedia design.]Publications: Special Issues of Journals Edited“Ecological Footprints: Crusoe's Island and other Alien Environments.” Special issue of Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 31 (2019).“China and the Making of Global Modernity.” Special issue of Eighteenth-Century Studies, 43 (2010). Coedited with Eun Kyung Min.“Climate and Crisis.” Special issue of Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies. Coedited with Gillen Wood, 8 (2008).“Rethinking Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama.” Special issue of Comparative Drama, 42 (2008). “Europe and East Asia in the Eighteenth Century.” Special issue of The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 45.2 (2004).“Science Fiction: A Postcolonial Odyssey.” Special Issue of Ariel: A Review of International English Literature. Coedited with Nancy Batty, 33 (2002).“Tis Good the Old Age is Out: Eighteenth-Century Millenialism.” Special issue of The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 41 (2000).“Dreaming Real: Cyberspace, Virtual Realities, and Their Discontents.” Special issue of Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology 3 (1994).“Interphysics: Postdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Science. Special issue of The New Orleans Review 18:1 (1991).“Narrative and Novel in the Eighteenth Century.” Special issue of Genre 23 (1990).“Scholarly Publishing.” Special section of The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 29:1 (1988). “Literary Theory and Eighteenth-Century Studies.” Special issue of The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 28:3 (1987).“Restoration Drama: Theories, Myths, and Histories.” Special issue of The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 24:2 (1983).Publications: EditionsJohn Dryden, Amphitryon. Coedited with Jeannie Dalporto. In The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Drama. Ed. J. Douglas Canfield. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2001, 1735-81.Publications: Articles“Mapping the Great Lakes: The Somageography of Water and Land, 1615-1828.” Coauthored with Michael Simeone, Christopher Morris, and Kenton McHenry. Eighteenth-Century Fiction 31 (2019), in press. “‘That full complement of riches’: China and the Problems of Political Economy in Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations.” Trade and Tribute: China and Global Modernity, 1784-1935. Ed. William Christie. Sydney: University of Sydney Press, in press.“Literature, Climate, and Time: Between History and Story.” Climate and Literature. Ed. Adeline Johns-Putra. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in press. “Nation and Environment in Britain, 1660-1705.” Emergent Nation: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1660-1714. Ed. Elizabeth Sauer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, 295-312.“As If: The Alternative Histories of Literature and Science.” Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology 26 (2018): 259-68. “The Canoe and the Superpixel: Image Analysis of the Changing Shorelines on Historical Maps of the Great Lakes.” Coauthored with Michael Simeone, Christopher Morris, and Kenton McHenry. Journal 18 (2018). Online: “Are You Experienced? Restoration Literature and the Critique of Cynical Reason.” Restoration 40 (2016): 90-95.“The Amherst Embassy in the Shadow of Tambora.” Writing China: Essays on the Amherst Embassy (1816) and Sino British Cultural Relations. Ed. Peter Kitson and Robert Markley. London: Boydell & Brewer, 2016, 83-104.“Alexander Hamilton, the Mughal War, and the Critique of the East India Company.” Genre 48 (2015): 237-59.“Canal.” Encyclopedia of Planetary Landforms. Ed. Henrik Hargitai and ?kos Kereszturi. New York: Springer Reference, 2015, 205-07. “Defoe and the Imagined Ecologies of Patagonia.” Philological Quarterly 93 (2014): 295-314.“China and the English Enlightenment: Literature, Aesthetics, and Commerce.” Literature Compass 11 (2014): 517-27. doi: 10.1111/lic3.12164“Human, Animal, and Machine in the Seventeenth Century.” A Companion to British Literature. Ed. Robert DeMaria, Jr., Heesok Chang, and Samantha Zacker. Coauthored with Lucinda Cole. Oxford: Wiley, 2014, 375-90. “The Economic Context.” The Cambridge Companion to ‘Pride and Prejudice’. Ed. Janet Todd. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013, 79-96. “Missions to Mars: Reimagining the Red Planet in the Age of Spaceflight.” In Exploring the Solar System: The History and Science of Planetary Probes. Ed. Roger Launius. Bastingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan, for the American Astronautical Association, 2013, 249-72.“Time, History, and Sustainability.” Telemorphosis: Theory in the Era of Climate Change, vol. 1. Ed. Tom Cohen. New York: Open Humanities Press, 2012, 43-64. “’How to go forward’: Catastrophe and Comedy in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Science in the Capital Trilogy.” Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology 20 (2012): 7-27. “The Eighteenth-Century Novel and the Pacific.” The Cambridge History of the English Novel. Ed. Robert Caesario and Clement Hawes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, 196-212. “Climate Studies.” The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science. Ed. Bruce Clarke, with Manuela Rossini. New York: Routledge, 2011, 63-76. “‘A Putridness in the Air’: Monsoons and Mortality in Seventeenth-Century Bombay.” Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies 10 (2010): 105-26.“She Has Never Been Modern: Aphra Behn and the Comedy of Disavowal.” Rehearsals of the Modern: Experience and Experiment in Restoration Drama, ed. Susanna Zinato. Naples: Liguori Editiore, 2010, 21-33.“A Brief History of Chronological Time.” Danish Yearbook of Philosophy 44 (2009): 59-75. “Anson at Canton, 1743: Obligation, Exchange, and Ritual in Edward Page’s ‘Secret History.’” The Culture of the Gift in Eighteenth-Century England. Ed. Linda Ziokowski and Cynthia Klekar. New York: Palgrave, 2009, 215-33. “Summer’s Lease: Shakespeare in the Little Ice Age.” Early Modern Ecostudies: From Shakespeare to the Florentine Codex. Ed. Karen Raber, Tom Hallock and Ivo Kamps. New York: Palgrave, 2008, 131-42.“‘Casualties and Disasters’: Defoe and the Interpretation of Climactic Instability.” Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies 8 (2008): 102-24. “The Nightmare of Evolution: H. G. Wells, Percival Lowell, and the Legacies of Frankenstein’s Science.” Frankenstein’s Science: Experimentation and Discovery in Romantic Culture, 1780-1830. Ed. Christa Knellwolf and Jane Goodall. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008, 183-99.“Aesthetico-Constructivism: Farther Adventures in Criticism.” Philological Quarterly 86 (2007): 291-314. “Monsoon Cultures: Climate and Acculturation in Alexander Hamilton’s A New Account of the East-Indies.” New Literary History 38 (2007): 527-50. “Aphra Behn’s The City Heiress: Feminism and the Dynamics of Popular Success on the Late Seventeenth-Century Stage.” Comparative Drama 41 (2007): 141-66.“Geek/Goth: Filmic Nostalgia in Edward Scissorhands and Ed Wood.” Goth: Undead Subculture. Ed. Michael Bibby and Lauren Goodlad. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007, 277-92.“Global Analogies: Cosmology, Geosymmetry and Skepticism in Some Works of Aphra Behn.” Science, Literature, and Rhetoric in Early Modern England. Ed. David Burchell and Juliet Cummins. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007, 189-212.“Resisting Richardson: Student Skepticism and Teaching Strategies for Pamela.” Approaches to Teaching Samuel Richardson. Ed. Jocelyn Harris and Lisa Zunshine. New York: MLA, 2006, 82-88.“Transgression and Irrelevance: A Reply to Geoffrey Harpham.” American Literary History 18 (2006): 262-66.“‘I have now done with my island, and all manner of discourse about it’: Crusoe’s Farther Adventures and the Unwritten History of the Novel.” The Blackwell Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel. Ed. Paula Backscheider and Catherine Ingrassia. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005, 25-47.“Harriett Hawkins and the Criticism of the 1970s: Interpretation, Theory, and Iconoclasm.” Style: Essays on Renaissance and Restoration Literature and Culture in Memory of Harriett Hawkins. Ed. Allen Michie and Eric Buckley. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005, 42-54.“Teaching the Crusoe Trilogy.” Approaches to Teaching Robinson Crusoe. Ed. Max Novak and Carl Fisher. New York: MLA, 2005, 96-104.“Behn and the Unstable Traditions of Social Comedy.” The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn. Ed. Derek Hughes and Janet Todd. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, 98-117. “Gulliver and the Japanese: The Limits of the Postcolonial Past.” Modern Language Quarterly 65 (2004): 457-479. * Reprinted as “’Those People Far Surpass Us’: Gulliver, The Japanese, and the Dutch.” Imperialisms: Historical and Literary Investigations, 1500-1900. Ed. Balachandra Rajan and Elizabeth Sauer. New York: Palgrave, 2004, 53-71.“The Dialogics of New Media: Video, Visualization, and Narrative in Red Planet: Scientific and Cultural Encounters with Mars.” Coauthored with Helen Burgess and Jeanne Hamming. Eloquent Images: Word and Image in the Age of New Media. Ed. Michelle Kendrick and Mary Hocks. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003, 61-85.“Riches, Power, Trade, and Religion: The Far East and the English Imagination, 1600-1720.” Renaissance Studies 17 (2003): 433-55. * Reprinted in Asian Travel in the Renaissance. Ed. Daniel Carey. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004, 169-191.“New Media and the Natural World: The Dialectics of Desire.” Bucknell Review 46:2 (2003): 33-57.“Natural Philosophy” (304-05); “Newtonianism” (308-09); “Alexander Pope” (350-51); “Objectivity” (312-13); “Ecomachia” (119); “Information Superhighway” (209-10). Literature and Science: An Encyclopedic Companion. Ed. Pamela Gossin. New York: Garland, 2002.“‘Still on the Criminal’s Side, against the Innocent’: Libertines and Legacies in the Plays of Etherege and Wycherley.” Blackwell Companion to Restoration Drama. Ed. Sue Owen. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001, 326-39.“Literature, Science, and Technology.” Encyclopedia of American Studies. Ed. George Kurian, Miles Orvell, Johnella Butler, and Jay Mechling. Danbury, Connecticut: Grolier, 2001.“The Ten-Minute Introduction: A Short History of GEMCS.” Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 1 (2001): v-x.“The Canon and Its Critics.” The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre. Ed. Deborah Payne. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, 226-42.“Nothing was Moribund, Nothing was Dark: Time and Its Narratives in the Early Modern Period.” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 41 (2000): 179-84.“Civility, Ceremony, and Desire at Beijing: Sensibility and the European Quest for ‘Free Trade’ with China in the Late Seventeenth Century.” Passionate Encounters in a Time of Sensibility. Ed. Anne Mellor and Maximilian Novak. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2000, 60-88.“‘Land enough in the World’: Locke’s Golden Age and the Infinite Extensions of ‘Use’.” South Atlantic Quarterly 98 (1999): 817-37.“‘Gulfes, deserts, precipices, stone’: Marvell’s ‘Upon Appleton House’ and the Contradictions of ‘Nature’.” The Country and the City Revisited : England and the Politics of Culture, 1550-1850. Ed. Donna Landry, Gerald MacLean, and Joseph Ward. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, 89-105.“Foucault, Modernity, and the Cultural Study of Science.” Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology 7 (1999): 153-73.“The destin’d Walls/ Of Cambalu: Milton, China, and the Ambiguities of the Far East.” In Milton and the Imperial Vision. Ed. Balachandra Rajan and Elizabeth Sauer. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1999, 191-213. “Newton, Corruption, and the Tradition of Universal History.” In Newton and Religion. Ed. James E. Force and Richard Popkin. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Press, 1999, 121-43.“After the Science Wars: From Old Battles to New Directions in the Cultural Study of Science.” In After the Disciplines: The Emergence of Cultural Studies. Ed. Michael Peters. London: Bergin and Garvey, 1999, 47-70.“Violence and Profits on the Restoration Stage: Trade, Nationalism, and Insecurity in Dryden’s Amboyna.” Eighteenth-Century Life 22 (1998): 2-17.“Alien Assassinations: The X-Files and the Paranoid Structure of History.” Camera Obscura 40-41 (1997): 77-103. “Recent Studies in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century.” Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 37 (1997): 637-72.“Falling into Theory: Simulation, Terraformation, and Eco-economics in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Martian Trilogy.” Modern Fiction Studies 43 (1997): 773-799. * Reprinted in Mapping the Unimagineable: Kim Stanley Robinson and the Critics. Ed. William Burling. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishing, 2009, 122-44.“Exterminate the Brutes: Cultural Studies and the Public Sphere.” Electronic Book Review 2 (1996); .“Introduction: History, Theory, Virtual Reality.” [Revised version of Introduction to 1994 special issue of Configurations.] In Virtual Realities and Their Discontents. Ed. Robert Markley. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, 1-10. * Reprinted as “History, Theory, Virtual Reality,” in Reading Digital Culture. Ed. David Trend. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001, 297-304.“‘Credit Exhausted’: Satire and Scarcity in the 1690s.” In Cutting Edges: Postmodern Critical Essays on Eighteenth-Century Satire. Ed. James Gill. Tennessee Studies in Literature, Vol. 37. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1995, 110-126.“‘Be impudent, be saucy, forward, bold, touzing and leud’: The Politics of Masculine Sexuality and Feminine Desire in Behn’s Tory Comedies.” In Cultural Readings of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Theatre. Ed. J. Douglas Canfield and Deborah Payne. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995, 114-140.“‘So Inexhaustible a Treasure of Gold’: Defoe, Credit, and the Romance of the South Seas.” Eighteenth-Century Life 18 (1994): 148-67.“Robert Boyle In and Out of His Time.” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 35 (1994): 280-86.“Introduction. Shreds and Patches: The Morphogenesis of Cyberspace.” Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology 3 (1994): 433-39.“Boundaries: Mathematics, Alienation, and the Metaphysics of Cyberspace.” Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology 3 (1994): 485-507. * Reprinted in Virtual Realities and Their Discontents. Ed. Robert Markley. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, 55-77. Translated into Swedish and reprinted in Montage (1998).“British Theory and Criticism: Early Eighteenth Century.” Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. Ed. Martin Kreiswirth and Michael Groden. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, 105-08.“The Contestations of Nature: Aphra Behn’s ‘The Golden Age’ and the Sexualizing of Politics.” Coauthored with Molly Rothenberg. In Rereading Aphra Behn: History, Theory, and Criticism. Ed. Heidi Hutner. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1993, 301-21.“The Irrelevance of Reality: Science, Ideology, and the Postmodern Universe.” Genre 25 (1992): 249-76.“Robert Boyle, Peter Shaw, and the Reinscription of Technology: Inventing and Reinventing the Air Pump.” In Literature and Technology. Ed. Mark Greenberg and Lance Schachterle. Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1992, 125-53.“Complex Dynamics: Literature, Science, and Postdisciplinarity.” Poetics Today 12 (1991): 337-46.“Representing Order: Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, and Theology in the Newtonian Revolution.” In Chaos and Order: Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science. Ed. N. Katherine Hayles. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991, 125-48.“What Now? An Introduction to Interphysics.” New Orleans Review 18 (1991): 5-8.“The Rise of Nothing: Revisionist Historiography and the Narrative Structure of Eighteenth-Century Studies.” Genre 23 (1990): 77-101.“What Isn’t History: The Snares of Demystifying Ideological Criticism.” Critical Inquiry 15 (1989): 647-57.“Isaac Newton’s Theological Writings: Problems and Prospects.” Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture 1660-1700 13 (1989): 35-48. * Reprinted in Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Volume 35. Ed. Cary Barterian and Jelena Krstovic. Detroit: Gale Research, 1998.“History, Criticism, and Literature.” In Critical Texts: Literary Theory from the Greeks through the Present. Ed. Robert Con Davis and Laurie Finke. New York: Longmans, 1989, 877-94. [One of four guide essays in an anthology of the history of criticism.]“Beyond Consensus: The Rape of the Lock and the Fate of Reading Eighteenth-Century Literature.” New Orleans Review 15, 4 (1988): 68-77. * Reprinted in Critical Essays on Alexander Pope. Ed. Wallace Jackson and R. Paul Yoder. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1993, 69-83.“Stop the Presses: A Modest Proposal for Sa(l)vaging Literary Scholarship.” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 29 (1988): 71-9.“Sentimentality as Performance: Shaftesbury, Sterne, and The Theatrics of Virtue.” In The New Eighteenth Century: Theory * Politics * English Literature. Ed. Felicity Nussbaum and Laura Brown. London and New York: Methuen, 1987, 210-30. * Reprinted in Critical Essays on Laurence Sterne. Ed. Melvyn New. Boston, G. K. Hall, 1998, 270-91.“Style as Philosophical Structure: The Contexts of Shaftesbury’s Characteristicks.” In The Philosopher as Writer: The Eighteenth Century. Ed. Robert Ginsberg. London: Associated University Presses; Selingsgrove, PA: Susquehanna University Press, 1987, 140-54.“Robert Boyle on Language: Some Considerations Touching the Style of the Holy Scriptures.” In Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, vol. 14. Ed. O. M. Brack, Jr. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985, 159-171.“Language, Power, and Sexuality in Cleland’s Fanny Hill.” Philological Quarterly 63 (1984): 343-56.“Tristram Shandy and ‘Narrative Middles’: J. Hillis Miller and the Style of Deconstructive Criticism.” Genre 17 (1984): 179-90. *Reprinted in Rhetoric and Form: Deconstruction at Yale. Ed. Robert Con Davis and Ronald Schleifer, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985, 179-90. “Seventeenth-Century Drama: History, Change, and Interpretation.” Coauthored with Laurie Finke. In From Renaissance to Restoration: Metamorphoses of the Drama. Ed. Robert Markley and Laurie Finke. Cleveland: Bellflower Press, 1984, 1-14.“‘Shakespeare to Thee was Dull’: The Phenomenon of Fletcher’s Influence.” In From Renaissance to Restoration: Metamorphoses of the Drama. Ed. Robert Markley and Laurie Finke. Cleveland: Bellflower Press, 1984, 89-125.“Writing without Authority and the Reading of Kierkegaard.” Coauthored with Ronald Schleifer. In Kierkegaard and Literature: Irony, Repetition, and Criticism. Ed. Ronald Schleifer and Robert Markley. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1984, 3-22.“Drama Character, and Irony: Kierkegaard and Wycherley’s The Plain Dealer.” In Kierkegaard and Literature: Irony, Repetition, and Criticism. Ed. Ronald Schleifer and Robert Markley. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1984, 138-63.“Objectivity as Ideology: Boyle, Newton, and the Languages of Science.” Genre 16 (1983): 355-72.“Introduction: History, Ideology, and the Study of Restoration Drama.” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 24 (1983): 91-102.Reviews and NotesStallard, Avan Judd. Antipodes: In Search of the Southern Continent. Clayton, Victoria, Australia: Monash University Press, 2016. 291+xviii pp. Australian Historical Studies (2019).Representation and Misrepresentation in Later Stuart Britain. Mark Knights. The Seventeenth Century 27 (2008), 19.Newton on Mathematics and Spiritual Purity. Ayval Leshem. Isis 96 (2005): 656-57.Aphra Behn’s Afterlife. Jane Spencer. The Theatre of Aphra Behn. Derek Hughes. Seventeenth-Century News 60 (2002): 58-60.Daniel Defoe: Master of Fictions. Max Novak. ASECS Book Reviews Online. . Posted 1-7-02.Poems of Nation, Anthems of Empire: English Verse in the Long Eighteenth Century. Suvir Kaul. ASECS Book Reviews Online. . Posted 8-15-01.English Drama, 1660-1700. Derek Hughes. Seventeenth-Century News 56 (1998): 82-85.Reinventing Shakespeare: A Cultural History from the Restoration to the Present. Gary Taylor. The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, n.s. 16--for 1990. New York: AMS Press, 1998, 331.Cultural Institutions of the Novel. Ed. Deidre Lynch and William Beatty Warner. Novel 31 (1998): 276-77.Letters and Papers of Robert Boyle: A Guide to the Manuscripts and Microfilm. Comp. and intro. Michael Hunter. Isis 84 (1993): 577.The Janus Faces of Genius: The Role of Alchemy in Newton’s Thought. B. J. T. Dobbs. Configurations 1 (1993): 273-76.Shakespeare’s Political Animal: Schema and Schemata in the Canon. Alan Hager. Genre 24 (1991): 220.Breaking and Remaking: Aesthetic Practice in England, 1700-1820. Ronald Paulson. The Scriblerian 23 (1991): 271-73.Literature and Science: Theory and Practice. Ed. Stuart Peterfreund. Modern Language Studies 21 (1991): 109-12.Forming the Critical Mind: Dryden to Coleridge. James F. Engell. Modern Language Quarterly 50 (1989): 400-03.Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel. Nancy Armstrong. Genre 21 (1988): 236-40.A Question of Eros: Irony in Sterne, Kierkegaard, and Barthes. John Vignaux Smyth. The Scriblerian 20 (1988): 187-89.The Figural and the Literal: Problems of Language in the History of Science and Philosophy 1630-1800. Ed. Andrew W. Benjamin, Geoffrey N. Cantor, and John R. R. Christie. Publications of the Society for Literature and Science 3 (1988): 6-mon and Courtly Language: The Stylistics of Social Class in 18th-Century British Literature. Carey McIntosh. Eighteenth-Century Studies 20 (1987): 398-400.Radical Tragedy: Religion, Ideology, and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries. Jonathan Dollimore. Genre 19 (1986): 84-85.Literature and Insubstantiality in Later Eighteenth-Century England. Fredric V. Bogel. Criticism 25 (1985): 211-14.The Poetics of Murder: Detective Fiction and Literary Theory. Ed. Glenn W. Most and William Stowe. Genre 16 (1983): 304-06.Critical Practice. Catherine Belsey. Genre 14 (1981): 411-13.“William Congreve.” “Restoration Drama.” “Richard Brinsley Sheridan.” “William Wycherley.” Academic American Encyclopedia. Princeton: Arete Press, 1980.“The Ideal Reader.” Forum, PMLA 94 (1979): 147-48.Work in ProgressBook manuscript on climate change and culture since 1500 Grants, Postdoctoral Fellowships, and AwardsInvestigator, Aggregating Great Lakes Environmental History: Exploring the Value of Distributed Digital Archives for Research and Teaching. Humanities without Walls Consortium (2015-16)Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (2012-13) W. D. and Sara E. Trowbridge Professor, University of Illinois (2011-present)List of Teachers Rated Excellent, University of IllinoisSpring 2018: Graduate Seminar, Cosmopolitanism and the Restoration StageSpring 2018: Later Eighteenth-Century LiteratureFall 2017:Undergraduate: Survey of British Literature to 1800Spring 2017: Undergraduate: Literature and ScienceSpring 2017: Undergraduate: Eighteenth-Century British LiteratureFall 2016: Undergraduate: Survey of British Literature to 1800Spring 2016: Survey of British Literature to 1800Fall 2015: Undergraduate: Survey of British Literature to 1800Spring 2015: Undergraduate: Survey of British Literature to 1800Spring 2014: Undergraduate: Science FictionSpring 2013: Undergraduate: Jane AustenSpring 2012: Undergraduate: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century DramaFall 2011, Undergraduate: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century DramaSpring 2011, Undergraduate: Science FictionFall 2010, Undergraduate: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century DramaFall 2009: Undergraduate: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century DramaSpring 2009: Graduate Seminar: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century LiteratureSpring 2009: Major Authors: Austen and BurneyFall 2008: Undergraduate: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century DramaSpring 2008: Undergraduate: Science FictionSpring 2008: Graduate Seminar: Literature and ScienceSpring 2007: Graduate Seminar: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century LiteratureSpring 2007: Undergraduate: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century DramaFall 2006: Major Authors: Austen and BurneySpring 2006: Graduate Seminar: Restoration LiteratureSpring 2005: Graduate Seminar: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century LiteratureFall 2004: Undergraduate: Eighteenth-Century NovelSpring 2004: Graduate Seminar: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century LiteratureSpring 2004: Undergraduate: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century DramaDigging into Image Data to Answer Authorship Related Questions. Digging into Data, a joint grant funded by NEH, NSF, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and JISC. Investigator. Collaborative grant ($300,000) shared by the University of Illinois, Michigan State University, and the University of Sheffield. (2010-2012)University of Illinois, Research Board, for 18thConnect (Spring 2010).Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Principal Investigator. 20,000 hours of supercomputing time for optical character recognition of eighteenth-century print fonts (2009-2010)Richard and Margaret Romano Professorial Scholar, University of Illinois (2005-2008)Award for Research Team Scholarship Grant. Co-principal Investigator with Earl Scime. West Virginia University (1999-2000 )Choice Outstanding Academic Book, for The Far East and the English Imagination, 1600-1730 (2006)Choice Outstanding Academic Book, for Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination (2005)Course and Software Development Grant, Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, West Virginia University, 1998-99 Course and Software Development Grant, Boreman Initiative, West Virginia University, 1997-98 Jackson Brothers Fellowship, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, 1997 Mayers Fellowship, The Huntington Library, 1996 Conference Visitorship, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, 1996 Bordinat Award for Outstanding Scholarly Achievement, West Virginia University, 1996National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for University Teachers, 1993-94 Arts and Humanities Faculty Scholar Award, University of Washington, 1993College Studies Program, University of Washington. Course Development Grant for “Gender and Eighteenth-Century Literature,” 1988 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, 1986-87 National Endowment for the Humanities, Program Development Grant, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1985-86. Co-recipient with Paul Armstrong, and Kenneth KnoespelWilliam Andrews Clark Library, UCLA: Summer Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1985 College of Arts and Sciences, Texas Tech University: Dean’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship, 1983-84 Texas Tech University, Summer Research Grant, 1984 Texas Tech University, New Faculty Research Grant, 1982 Invited Lectures (2004-2018)“Frankenstein’s Climate: Experiential Knowledge at the End of the Little Ice Age.” Invited Lecture, University of Oklahoma, October 2018.“’Choked with?. . . Rank Luxuriance’: William Robertson’s Americas and the Eighteenth-Century?Understanding of Global Climates.” Plenary Lecture, Early Atlantic Group Colloquium, Purdue University, April 2018.“After Sustainability: The (Future) Histories of Climate Change.” Invited Lecture, University of California, Merced, March 2017.“China and the Problem of Political Economy: The Scots Enlightenment and the Stages of Civilization.” Invited Lecture, International Symposium on China and Global Modernity (1784-1919), Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, May 2016.“The City in the Eighteenth Century: Canton.” Invited Lecture, Yale University, April 2015.“Interdisciplinary Publishing in Literature and Science.” Invited Lecture, Arizona State University, February 2015.“The Amherst Embassy in the Shadow of Tambora.” Invited Lecture, Chinese University of Hong Kong, December 2014“What was Climate Science?: Knowledge without a Future.” Plenary Lecture. Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, October 2014.“Defoe and the Problem of the East India Company.” Plenary Lecture. Defoe in Asia Conference. University of Tsukuba, Japan, September 2014. “Alien Environments: Alexander Hamilton and the Discourses of Political Ecology.” Plenary Lecture. Telling Failures: Early Encounters between the Far East and the West Conference, University of Hamburg, Germany, May 2014.“Defoe and the Imagined Ecologies of South America.” Brackenridge Lecture. University of Texas at San Antonio, March 2014.“Nature and Climate in the World of Austen’s Mansfield Park.” Invited Lecture. Rice University, February 2014.“The Unsustainable Estate: Imagining Nature in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park.” Humanities Institute, Stony Brook University, November 2013. (Revised version of lecture delivered at SMU; see below)“Is Mr. Darcy a Virgin? Masculine Sexuality in Pride and Prejudice.” Plenary Lecture. Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial. Center for Education, Leadership, and Innovation in the Arts, Wright State University, October 2013.“Mapping the Great Lakes, 1680-1820: Climate, History, and Computational Analysis.” University of Rochester, September 2013; also delivered at the Center for Twenty-first Century Studies, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, October 2013.“Defoe and the Literature of Circumnavigation.” Plenary Lecture. Defoe Society Conference, August 2013.“The Unsustainable Estate: Imagining Nature in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park.” Gilbert Lecture, Southern Methodist University, January 2013.“The History of the Earth and the History of Life: The Biopolitics of Time in the Eighteenth Century.” Systems of Life: Economies, Politics, and the Biological Sciences, 1750-1850, Seminar at the Huntington Library, November 2012.“Mapping the Great Lakes, 1680-1820: Climate, History, and Computational Analysis.” Southern Methodist University, Center for Sciences and the Humanities, February 2012.“Literature without a Future: Climate and Consciousness from Emerson to Contemporary Science Fiction.” CUNY Graduate Center. November 2011. “'How very wonderful the operations of time': The Unsustainable Countryside in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park." Newberry Library Eighteenth-Century Seminar, October 2010. Later versions of this paper delivered at:Vanderbilt University, Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Colloquium, February 2011University of Exeter, Inaugural Lecture in the Cornwall Universities Research Programme, “From Climate to Landscape: Imagining the Future,” funded by the European Social Fund, February 2011 Ohio University, Annual Holloway Lecture, March 2011Columbia University Eighteenth-Century Seminar, November 2011Agnes Scott College, March 2012“Constructing Climate: Time, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Global Warming.” Plenary speaker, The Humanities between Constructivism and Biologism, University of Copenhagen, September 2010.“Trade, Religion, and the East India Company in the Seventeenth Century.” Plenary speaker, Harrington Symposium, University of Texas-Austin, February 2010."Rethinking Modernity, Rethinking Drama: The Case of Aphra Behn.” Plenary lecture, Rehearsals of the Modern: Experience and Experiment in Restoration Drama. University of Verona, December 2009.“Embodied Time, Climatological Time, Sustainability.” Plenary speaker, Hermann’s Lecture Series, University of Texas-Arlington, October 2009. Also delivered as an invited lecture (October 2009), University of Oklahoma“A Putridness in the Air”: Bioregionalism, Climate, and the Etiology of Disease.” Plenary Lecture, Rhetorics of Plague: Early Modern Trajectories of Biohazard. SUNY-Albany, April 2009.“Nature, Landscape, and Climate: Feeling the Heat in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park.” Eastern Illinois University, Barzagan Lecture, April 2009“18thConnect: From pdf Images to Clean Data Sets.” HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Social Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory), April 2009. “Embodied Time, Climatological Time, Sustainability.” Plenary speaker, Idioms of the Post-Global, SUNY-Buffalo. March 2009.“Defoe, Climate, and the Instability of Nature.” Harvard University, September 2008; also delivered at the University of Iowa, November 2008.“Summer’s Lease: Shakespeare in the Little Ice Age.” Hunter College, CUNY, March 2008; also delivered at MIT, September 2008; University of Southern Maine, September 2008 (all endowed lecture series). “Down and Out in Indostan: The British at the Court of Aurangzeb and the Limits of the Postcolonial Past.” University of Maryland, November 2007.“Anson at Canton, 1743: The Unmaking of Anglocentrism in the Eighteenth Century.” Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, August 2007.“Aphra Behn’s The City Heiress”: Feminism and Popular Success in the Restoration Theatre.” Texas Tech University, March 2007.“Aphra Behn and Her Audiences: Feminism, Comedy, and the Restoration Stage.” Distinguished Speaker, Western Michigan University, October 2006.“Climate, Race, and Civility in Southeast Asia: Alexander Hamilton’s A New Account of the East Indies.” The Sciences of Race in the Long Eighteenth Century, University of Southern California-Huntington Library Early Modern Studies Institute, 2006.“Climate, Culture, and Crisis: The Rise and Fall of Modernity.” Canterbury University, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2006. “Down and Out in Indostan: The British, Aurangzeb, and the Limits of the Postcolonial Past.” Plenary speaker, Custom, Ritual, Habit, Fetish: The Idols of the Eighteenth Century Conference. Indiana University, 2005.Forty-five plenary and invited lectures at universities in the US, Great Britain, New Zealand, and Australia, between 1989-2004.Selected Papers Delivered (2007-2018)“Literature, Climate, and Time: Jim Shepard and Kim Stanley Robinson in the Anthropocene.” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, November 2018.“The East India Company, the Navy, and the ‘Pirates’ in the Indian Ocean: The British Confront the Maratha Confederacy.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. March 2018.“The Invention of Chronological Time.” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. November 2017.“Defoe and the Critique of the East India Company.” Defoe Society Conference, August 2017.“Newton, Locke, and the General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century:Some Thoughts on the Origins of Environmental History.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. March 2017.“The Amherst Embassy, Tambora, and Some Romantic Perceptions of China.” Romanticism Studies Association of Australasia. February 2017.“Big Data, Bad Data: The Epistemology of Analytics. Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. November 2016“Do Extraterrestrial Cyanobacteria Dream of Extremophile Sheep? Martian Life-forms and the Problem of Experimental Control.” European Society for Literature and Science. Stockholm, June 2016“Are You Experienced?” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, March 2016“Extraterrestrial Ecologies and the Problem of Water.” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. November 2015“Defoe and the Imagined Ecologies of Patagonia.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. April 2015“Thomas Shadwell, A True Widow (1680) and the Legacy of the Civil War during the Exclusion Crisis.” MLA. January 2015"Climatological Time and the Literary Imagination in the Late Eighteenth Century: Reading Jane Austen with Pierre Simon de Laplace." MLA. January 2015“Global Cities: Canton.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. March 2014.“’Choked with rank luxuriance’: William Robertson’s America.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. April 2013.“’The most remote places of the universall World’: Shakespeare and the Spice Trade.” Shakespeare Association, March 2013.“Thinking Through Climate.” MLA, January 2013.“Neglected ‘Nature’: Oceanic Navigation and the Understanding of Climate, 1500-1800.” East-Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, November 2012“Parasitical Ecologies: The Problems of Imagining Extraterrestrial Life.” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, September 2012.“The History of the Earth and the History of Time: Reading Eighteenth-Century Poetry with James Hutton and Simon Pierre de la Place.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, March 2011.“Climate Change and Consciousness in Kim Stanley Robinson's Science in the Capital Trilogy.” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, September 2011.“Disease, Climatic Variability, and Siege Warfare: Bombay during the Moghul War.” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, October 2010.“‘A putridness in the Air’: Monsoons and Mortality in British Writing on Bombay, 1660-1800.” British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies,” January 2010.“Embodied Time and Sustainability.” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts.” October 2009.“’Putrid Exhalations’: Wetlands and the Ideology of Improvement.” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, 2009.“18thConnect: A Model for Cyberinfrastructure in the Humanities,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, March 2009 “The China Trade and Armchair Geographers: English Encounters in the Far East,” MLA 2008“Biocentrism, Systems Theory, and Climate Change.” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, 2008.“Rethinking Political Economy: Adam Smith and the Biocultural Sublime.” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, 2008.“Beyond Eurocentricism: The Far East and English Literary Culture in the Restoration.” MLA, 2007.“Behn, Shadwell, and the Gendering of Theatrical Success in the 1680s.” East-Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2007.“Climate, Techno-Fixes and Systems Theory.” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, 2007.“‘Casualties and Disasters’: Defoe and the Interpretation of Climactic Instability,” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, November 2007.“Mapping Climates: Cartography and the Visual Imagination from Dampier to Cook.” Visual Cultures of the British World, Sydney, Australia, 2007.“Adam Smith and the Sublime Object of Modernity.” David Nichol Smith Seminar, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2007.“Greenblatt in Oklahoma, 1982: The Origins of New Historicism.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2007.“Summer’s Lease: Shakespeare in the Little Ice Age.” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, 2007.Professional EmploymentUniversity of Illinois: William D. and Sara E. Trowbridge Professor (2011-present)University of Illinois: Professor (2003-present)West Virginia University: Professor and Jackson Distinguished Chair of British Literature (1995-2003)University of Virginia, Visiting Professor (Fall 2000)University of Washington: Professor (1994-95); Associate Professor (1989-94); Assistant Professor (1987-89)Tulane University: Visiting Professor: (Spring 1991)University of Oklahoma: Visiting Professor (Summer 1990)University of Oregon: Visiting Professor (Spring 1990)Georgia Institute of Technology: Assistant Professor (1985-87)Texas Tech University: Assistant professor (1981-85)University of Oklahoma: Instructor (1979-81)Vassar College: Instructor (1978-79)Teaching Experience: Graduate SeminarsAsia and Africa in British Literature, 1660-1860The Cosmopolitan Stage, 1660-1830Literature, Climate, and Culture, 1600-1830Literature, Trade, and Colonialism, 1500-1750Sexuality and the Novel, 1680-1800The Novel: Richardson to AustenNature and Culture since the Seventeenth CenturyLiterature, Gender, and Property, 1660-1740British Literature, 1740-1785Restoration and Eighteenth-Century DramaLiterature, Science, and EcologyLiterature, Science, and ModernityDesire: Theory and Cultural PracticeMedia/Theory: Gutenberg to Virtual RealityLiterature, Science, and Ecology: Contested Pasts, Alternative Futures Workshop on Scholarly PublishingTeaching Experience: Undergraduate CoursesLater Eighteenth-Century LiteratureEighteenth-Century NovelEnglish Drama to 1800English Literature Survey to 1800English Literature, 1600-1800English Literature, 1660-1740Major Authors: Frances Burney and Jane AustenMen and Women in Eighteenth-Century LiteratureMars in Science and Science FictionLiterature and Ecology (Honors Seminar)Literature and Science (Honors Seminar)Literature and MedicineMethod, Inquiry, and ImaginationMasterpieces of English LiteratureMiltonShakespeareRenaissance LiteratureNineteenth-Century NovelJacobean DramaHistory of CriticismContemporary Literary TheoryIntroduction to DramaIntroduction to PoetryWorld LiteratureTechnical WritingCompositionProfessional ActivitiesEditor, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation (1982-present)Editor, Mariner10: Educational Multimedia, University of Pennsylvania Press (2000-present)Editor, AnthropoScene: The Book Series for the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (2015-present)Executive Committee, Global China: The International Association for the Study of Cultural Relations Between China and the Modern World, 1644-1949 (2016-present)MLA Delegate Assembly (2015-18)Executive Committee, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2012-15)Second Vice President (2010-12), First Vice-President (2012-14), President (2014-16), Society for Literature, Science, and the ArtsSection Editor, Eighteenth Century Literature, Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies (2007-2012)Interim Editor, Configurations (2012)Chair, Advisory Board, Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies (2003-2013)Steering Collective, Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies (1993-2013)MLA Executive Committee, Division on Methods of Literary Research (2010-2015)Co-director (with Eun Kyung Min, Seoul National University), “China and the Making of Global Modernity, 1600-1800: New Lines of Research in History, Economics, Literature and Art”: Summer Seminar, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University (2007)Conference Chair, Annual Conference, Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Chicago, 2007.Advisory Editor, Eighteenth-Century Studies (2004-07)Editor, The Series on Science and Culture, University of Oklahoma Press (1991-2003)MLA Executive Committee, Division on Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Literature (1994-99)American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Travel Committee, Chair (1998-99)Conference Chair, 1996 Annual Conference, Group for Early Modern Cultural StudiesConference Committee, 1992 American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies ConferenceConference Chair, 1990 Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature and ScienceProgram Committee, Chair, 1989 Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature and ScienceAdvisory Editor (1992-present); Editorial Board (1986-92), GenreBoard of Advisors, Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology (1991-present)Editorial Board, Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700 (1997-present)Advisory Editor, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, monograph series, Bucknell University Press (2000-2014)Reader: Broadview PressCambridge University PressUniversity of Chicago PressCornell University PressPrinceton University PressDuke University PressHarvard University PressPalgrave MacmillanEdinburgh University PressStanford University PressUniversity of Pennsylvania PressUniversity of Minnesota PressUniversity of Virginia PressUniversity of Toronto PressMcGill-Queens University PressSUNY PressUniversity of Oklahoma PressUniversity of Delaware PressUniversity of Iowa PressUniversity of Georgia PressHong Kong University PressFordham University PressDemeter PressUniversity of Kentucky PressBlackwell PublishersUniversity of South Carolina PressNortheastern University PressTexas Tech University PressAshgate PublishingAnthem PressPMLATheatre JournalAmerican Literary HistoryMosaicEighteenth-Century StudiesEighteenth-Century FictionModern Language QuarterlyPapers on Language and LiteratureStudies in Eighteenth-Century CultureStudies in English Literature 1500-1900StyleVictorian StudiesThe Historical JournalInternational Journal of Scottish StudiesExternal RefereeMichelle Kendrick Memorial Prize, Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (Chair, 2007-continuing)Kenshur Book Prize Committee, Center for eighteenth-Century Studies, Indiana University (2017)American Council of Learned Societies (2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-07)Gottschalk Prize Committee, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (1995-97; Chair, 1996-97)National Science Foundation (1997; 2002; 2011; 2014)Bruns Prize, Society for Literature and Science (1993)Fellowships for University Teachers, NEH (1991, 1993, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2012, 2015)Humanities and Research Council of Canada (1989-91, 1996, 1999)Lewis and Clark College, Program in Science, Technology, and Values (1989)Departmental and University Service (selected committee service)University of IllinoisCollege of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Executive Committee (2019-21; 2008-10)Graduate Admissions (2018-19)Dean’s Committee for Academic Excellence (2017-18)Graduate Prize Committee (2017-18)Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2017-20)Graduate Admissions Committee (2015-16)Illinois Research Connections Governance Committee (2014-2018)Undergraduate Education Committee (2013-15)Provost’s Committee on Faculty Retention (2005-2010)Faculty Excellence Review Committee (2008-2011)Dean’s Committee on Named Appointments (2007-08)College of Liberal Arts and Sciences: Mellon Senior Fellowships Committee (2003-04)Renaissance Search Committee (2005-06; 2006-07)Literature and Science Search Committee (2005-06)English Department Advisory Committee (2004-06)Graduate Admissions Committee (2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-07)West Virginia UniversityPh. D. Director (2000-03)Graduate Program Committee (2000-03)Medievalist Search Committee (2001-02)College of Arts and Sciences, Dean’s Advisory Committee (1998-99)Romanticism Search Committee (1998-99)Medieval Search Committee (1996-97)Bordinat Prize Committee (1995); Chair(1997)Benedum Distinguished Lecture Series, Chair (1995-96; 1997-98)College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Researcher Committee (1995-96)Benedum Distinguished Scholar Award Committee (1995-96; 1998-2000)Department of English, Ph.D. Admissions Committee (1995-98)Department of English, Graduate Personnel Committee (1996-99; Chair; 1997-98)Department of English, Committee to Revise the Major, Chair (1995-96)Renaissance Search Committee (1994-95)University of WashingtonGraduate Placement Director (1992-94)Graduate Placement Committee (1989-90; 1987-88)Undergraduate Education Committee, Chair (1991-93)Undergraduate Education Committee (1990-91)Humanities Dissertation Fellowship Committee (1992)Tenure Review Committee (1990)Heilman Dissertation Prize Committee (1989; Chair 1990)Graduate Studies Committee (1988-89)Georgia Institute of TechnologySearch Committee (1985-86)Literature and Science Certificate Committee (1985-86)Western Traditions Committee (1985-86)Texas Tech UniversityTechnical Writing Committee (1981-84)New Faculty Research Grants (1983)Graduate Student Supervision: Dissertations DirectedSharon Stockton (Washington, 1991): “Remapping the Renaissance: Mystifications of the Past and the Politics of Modernism.” Placement: Associate Professor of English, Dickinson College (retired)Desiree Hellegers (Washington, 1993): “Science, Conscience, and Poetry from John Donne to Anne Finch.” Placement: Professor of English and Women’s Studies, Washington State University-VancouverRaymond Tumbleson (Washington, 1993): “Catholicism in the Protestant Imagination: Nationalism, Religion, and Literature in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century England.” Placement: Professor of English, Kutztown UniversityHeidi Hutner (Washington, 1993): “Representing the ‘Other’ Woman: Colonial Discourse and Restoration Drama.” Placement: Professor of English, SUNY-Stony Brook and Director of Sustainability StudiesHans Turley (Washington, 1994): “The Homosocial Subject: Piracy, Sexuality, and Identity in the Novels of Daniel Defoe.” Placement: Associate Professor of English, University of Connecticut (deceased)Michelle Kendrick (Washington, 1996): “The Technological Subject: Gender, Writing, and Hypermedia.” Placement: Associate Professor of English and Director of the Program in Digital and Electronic Media, Washington State University-Vancouver (deceased)Martha Koehler (Washington, 1994): “Paragons and Parasites: Narrative Disruptions and Gender Constraints in Epistolary Fiction.” Placement: Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh-GreensburgDavid Brande (Washington, 1994): “Technologies of Postmodernity: Ideology and Desire in Literature and Science.” Placement: Associate Professor, Portland State University (retired)Rebecca Merrens (Washington, 1994): “Troping Tragedy: Women, Nature, and Theories of Order in Early Modern England.” Placement: Assistant Professor of Literature, Communication, and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology. (Now working in educational administration)Cristina Alfar (Washington, 1997): “‘Evil’ Women: Patrilineal Fantasies in Early Modern Tragedy.” Placement: Professor of English, Hunter College, CUNYRaymond Harris (Washington, 1997): “Mechanism, Modernism, and the Rule of Metaphor.” Software executiveRachel Ramsey (West Virginia, 2001): “‘A Mad Intemperance of Building’: The Literary Construction of Early Modern London.” Placement: Professor, Assumption College, Worcester, MA.Jeannie Dalporto (West Virginia, 2001): “‘To build, and plant, and keep a Table’: Class, Gender, and the Ideology of Improvement in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Literature.” Placement: Professor, University of CharlestonHelen Burgess (West Virginia, 2003): “Highways of the Mind.” Placement: Associate Professor in Media and Culture, North Carolina State University. Neal Bukeavich (West Virginia, 2003): “Fictions of Nature: Ecology, Science, and Culture in Twentieth-Century British Literature.” Placement: Associate Professor, Kings College, PennsylvaniaJeanne Hamming (West Virginia, 2003): “Second Natures: Media, Masculinity, and the Natural World in Twentieth-Century Literature and Film.” Placement: Professor, Centenary College.Cynthia Klekar (West Virginia, 2005): “Fictions of the Gift: Generosity, Obligation, and Economy in Eighteenth-Century English Literature.” Placement: Associate Professor and Associate Editor, Comparative Drama, Western Michigan University.Elizabeth Johnston (West Virginia, 2005): “Rival Fictions: Eighteenth-Century Domestic Fiction, Women Writers, and Trope of Female Competition.” Placement: Professor, Monroe CollegeLisa Brewer (West Virginia University, 2005): “Paradise Negotiated: Early Modern Women and the Writing of Utopia, 1640-1760.” Placement: Professor, New River CollegeMatthew Packer (West Virginia, 2006): “‘Mirror Worlds’: Transpacific Inspiration and Mimetic Rivalry in American and East Asian Literature, 1945-2005.” Placement: Associate Professor, Buena Vista College.Humberto Garcia (University of Illinois, 2007): “Islam in the Radicalism Protestant Imagination, 1660-1830.” Placement: Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University, now Associate Professor, University of California-Merced Marilyn Walker (University of Illinois, 2007; co-director). “Writing Resistance: The Politics and Poetics of British Women’s Antislavery Verse, 1785-1865.” Placement: Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology.Aleksondra Hultquist (University of Illinois, 2008): “‘Equal Ardor’: Female Desire, Amatory Fiction and the Recasting of the Novel, 1684-1757.” Placement: Assistant Professor, West Georgia University; now Assistant Professor Stockton University Peter Craft (University of Illinois, 2010): “Warfare, Trade, and ‘Indians’ in British Literature, 1652-1771”. Placement: Associate Professor, Felician CollegeMichael Simeone (University of Illinois, 2011): “American Gadgets: Consumer Electronics, American Literature, and the Cybernetic Dialectic.” Senior Sustainability Scientist and Research Associate Professor, Biosocial Complexity Initiative, Arizona State University? Anne Brubaker (University of Illinois, 2011): “Literature in the Age of Mathematics” Placement: Associate Director of Writing Programs, Wellesley CollegeJennifer Lieberman (University of Illinois, 2011): “Power Lines: Electrical Networks and the American Literary Imagination, 1870 – 1916.” Placement: Associate Professor, University of North Florida Sarah Alderfer (University of Illinois, 2012): “Virtue Contested: Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Production of Shame, 1680-1753.” Placement: Associate Professor, Vincennes University.Denys Van Renen (University of Illinois, 2012): “From Borders to Topographies: Identities and Expansion in British Literature, 1620-1750.” Placement: Associate Professor, University of Nebraska-KearneyMichael Behrens (University of Illinois, 2013): “Women Writers, Religious Rhetoric, and the Origins of Sensibility in England, 1660-1754.” Placement: Assistant Professor, Emporia State University Michael Black (Univerity of Illinois, 2014): “Transparent cultures: Imagined users and the politics of software design (1975-2012).” Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts-LowellErin McQuiston (Univerity of Illinois, 2014): “Toxic Gardens: Narratives of Fertility and Environmental Crisis in American Fiction.” Placement: Heritage Hall School, Oklahoma CityJeremy Wear (University of Illinois, 2015): “Ghosts of the Pacific: Imagined Masculinities in British Voyage Literature, 1697-1817.” Placement: Assistant Professor, Montevallo University; now Assistant Professor, Wesley College Marilyn Holguin (University of Illinois; co-director, 2016): “Appropriating the Restoration Hero(ine): Intertextuality and the Transformation of Gender Identity, 1677-1759.” Placement: Lectuer, Zhejiang University (China) Alaina Pincus (University of Illinois, 2016): “Jewish Cosmopolitanism and Citizenship in the British Imagination, 1655-1755”; Placement: Project Manager for General Education Initiative, Provost’s Office, University of IllinoisReferences Available on Request ................
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