{"id":8,"date":"2017-06-19T14:17:15","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T18:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/demariajr\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2017-07-12T11:46:29","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T15:46:29","slug":"curriculum-vitae","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/demariajr\/curriculum-vitae\/","title":{"rendered":"Curriculum Vitae"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Education<\/h3>\n<p>A.B. Amherst College, 1970<br \/>\nPh.D. Rutgers University, 1975 diss.<br \/>\n&#8220;Critical Worlds,&#8221; directed by Paul Fussell<\/p>\n<h3>Employment<\/h3>\n<p>Assistant Professor, Vassar College, 1975-1983<br \/>\nAssociate Professor, Vassar College, 1983-1989<br \/>\nHenry Noble MacCracken Professor of English Literature, Vassar College, 1989-<\/p>\n<h3>Adminstrative Appointments<\/h3>\n<p>Director, Middle States Reaccreditation for Vassar (2007-9)<\/p>\n<p>Director, Vassar Mellon Grant for Teaching with Technology (1997-2001).<\/p>\n<h3>Grants and Fellowships<\/h3>\n<p>NEH Scholarly Editions Grant, 2012-15<\/p>\n<p>Guggenheim Fellowship, 1992-93<\/p>\n<p>Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, fellow, 1992-93.<\/p>\n<p>NEH Summer Stipend, 1989.<\/p>\n<p>Fulbright Visiting Scholar Grant, 1988: co-author, with Jeff Opland, of a successful grant to bring David Livingston Yali-Manisi, a Xhosa oral poet, to Vassar for a term to assist in the technology of writing program.<\/p>\n<p>Vassar Mellon Grant to study Sanskrit, 1988-91.<\/p>\n<p>Alfred P. Sloan Grant, 1985-89: director of the &#8220;Technology of Writing Program,&#8221; which was dedicated to examining the hypothesis that writing is conditioned by the technologies used to produce it.<\/p>\n<p>ACLS Grant-in-Aid, 1981: for research on<em> Johnson&#8217;s Dictionary and the Language of Learning<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>New College, Oxford, elected member of the SCR, 1980-81.<\/p>\n<p>NEH Summer Stipend, 1980: for research on <em>Johnson&#8217;s Dictionary and the Language of Learning<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h3>Other Professional Activity and Honors<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>International Executive Committee, IAUPE, 2016-<\/p>\n<p>Executive Committee, NEASECS, 2012-17<\/p>\n<p>Executive Committee, MLA Group on Lexicography and Bibliography, 2012-17<\/p>\n<p>Editorial Board, <em>Textus<\/em>, 2009-<\/p>\n<p>President, Samuel Johnson Society of Southern California, 2008<\/p>\n<p>General Editor and Chair of the Editorial Board, Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson, 2007-<\/p>\n<p>Christian Gauss Award Selection Committee, 2007-<\/p>\n<p>Elected member of the International Association of University Professors of English, 2004-<\/p>\n<p>Editor, <em>Johnsonian News Lette<\/em>r, 2002-<\/p>\n<p>Board of Managers, Oakwood Friends School, 2001-<\/p>\n<p>Advisory Board, Amherst College, Friends of the Library, 2001-<\/p>\n<p>Editorial Board, <em>Age of Johnson<\/em>, 2000- Reader for Mellon Post-graduate Awards in the Humanities (Woodrow Wilson Foundation), 1996-2005<\/p>\n<p>Editorial Board, Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson, 1995-<\/p>\n<p>Reader for 1994 NEH Summer Stipends Elected member of the Johnsonians, 1991- (president, 2004)<\/p>\n<p>Co-organizer, with Rachel Kitzinger and Jeff Opland, of &#8220;Transformations of the Word,&#8221; an international conference on the technology of writing, May 29-June 2, 1987.<\/p>\n<p>Executive producer, <em>Praise Poetry in America<\/em>, a film about a Xhosa oral poet&#8217;s visit to America (1988).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Publications and Works under Contract<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<h4>Critical Books<\/h4>\n<p><em>British Literature 1640-1789:\u00a0Keywords (forthcoming 2018)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading<\/em>. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Life of Samuel Johnson<\/em>. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993.<\/p>\n<p><em>Johnson&#8217;s Dictionary and the Language of Learning<\/em>. Chapel Hill and Oxford: University of North Carolina Press and the Clarendon Press, 1986.<\/p>\n<h4>Editions<\/h4>\n<p><em>Johnson on Demand: reviews, prefaces, proposals and dedications<\/em>. Ed, with O M Brack, Jr. Vol. XX of the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson. 2018, projected.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Yale Anthology of the Works of Samuel Johnson<\/em>. Ed., with Howard<\/p>\n<p>Weinbrot and Steve Fix. Yale University Press. 2017, projected.<\/p>\n<p><em>Biographical Writings: Soldiers, Scholars, and Friends<\/em>. Ed, with O M Brack, Jr. Vol. XIX of the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson. 2016<\/p>\n<p><em>The Yale Digital Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson<\/em>. Ed. Yale University Press, 2014.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Blackwell Guide to British Literature<\/em>. 4 vols. Ed., with Heesok Chang and Samantha Zacher. Blackwell\/Wiley, 2014.<\/p>\n<p><em>A Catalogue of Choice Books by Michael Johnson<\/em>. Samuel Johnson Society ofSouthern California, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Johnson&#8217;s Considerations,&#8221; facsimile edition with an introduction (with O M Brack, Jr.), forthcoming.<\/p>\n<p><em>Classical Literature and Its Reception: An Anthology<\/em> (with Robert Brown). Blackwell, 2007.<\/p>\n<p><em>Textus: English Studies in Italy<\/em>, vol. 19, with Giovanni Iamartino (2006).<\/p>\n<p><em>Johnson on the English Language<\/em>, Volume XVIII in The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson (with Gwin Kolb), 2005.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Johnsonian News Letter<\/em>, vol. 54, no. 1-vol. 58, no. 2 (September 2003-Sepember 2007).<\/p>\n<p><em>Adam Smith Reviews Samuel Johnson&#8217;s Dictionary of the English Language<\/em>. The Johnsonians, 2005.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Vision of Theodore, the Hermit of Teneriffe<\/em>. The Typophiles, 2005<\/p>\n<p><em>British Literature 1640-1789: An Anthology<\/em>. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996. 2d edn, 2001. 3rd Edition, in press, 2008.<\/p>\n<p><em>Gulliver&#8217;s Travels<\/em>. Penguin Books, 2001. 2nd Edition, 2003.<\/p>\n<p><em>A New Preface by Samuel Johnson<\/em> (with O.M. Brack). Tempe, Arizona, 2001.<\/p>\n<p><em>On the Character and Duty of an Academick<\/em> (New York: The Johnsonians, 2000).<\/p>\n<p><em>British Literature 1640-1789: A Critical Reader<\/em>. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.<\/p>\n<p><em>Transformations of the Word, a special double issue of Language and Communication<\/em> (with Rachel Kitzinger). Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1989.<\/p>\n<h4>Articles<\/h4>\n<p>\u201cFraudulence and Savagery in Three Eighteenth-Century British Writers,\u201d <em>Il \u00a0<\/em><em>Conforto Letterario<\/em>, ed. Lia Guerra (2016), pp. 37-55.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJohnson and the Teutonic Roots of English.\u201d <em>The Harp and the Constitution<\/em>, ed. Joanne Parker, Brill 2015, pp. 47-65.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCareful and Careless: Epic tales in the Editing of Dr Johnson,\u201d <em>Times\u00a0<\/em><em>\u00a0Literary Supplement<\/em>, 6 March 2015, pp. 14-15.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong>Samuel Johnson\u2019s Editorial Lexicography,\u201d <em>Dictionaries<\/em>, 35 (2014), 146-61.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cPublishing Johnson\u2019s Works: The First Two Hundred Years,\u201d\u00a0<em>Tercentenary Essays on Samuel Johnson<\/em>, ed. Howard Weinbrot, Huntington Library, 2014: 343-66.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJohnson on Barbarism and Corruption in the <em>Works of Ascham<\/em> (1761), with Robert Brown, <em>Johnsonian News Letter<\/em> LXIV, No. 2 (September 2013), pp. 17-23<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSamuel Parr\u2019s Epitaph for Johnson, His Library, and His Unwritten Biography,\u201d <em>Editing Lives: Essays in Contemporary Textual and Biographical Studies in Honor of OM Brack, Jr<\/em>., ed. Jesse Swann. Bucknell University Press, 2013: 67-92.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour Humble Servant: Real Letters from Real Servants in the Eighteenth Century.\u201d <em>Age of Johnson<\/em>, 22 (2012): 191-206.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJohnson and Change.\u201d In <em>Johnson\u2019s Pendulum<\/em>. Ed. Lynda Mugglestone and Freya Johnstone. Oxford University Press, 2012: 24-36.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBook Collecting in America, 1945-2000\u201d in <em>The History of the Book in\u00a0<\/em><em>America<\/em>, vol. 5 (University of North Carolina Press, 2009), pp. 472-84.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Samuel Johnson and the Saxonic Shakespeare,&#8221; in <em>Comparative Excellence: New Studies in Shakespeare and Johnson<\/em>, ed. Aaron Santesso (New York: AMS Press, 2006), 24-45.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;North and South in Johnson&#8217;s Dictionary.&#8221; <em>Textus<\/em>, vol. 19 (2006), pp. 11-32.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Johnson&#8217;s Ex Tempore History and Grammar of English&#8221; in <em>New Perspectives on Johnson&#8217;s Dictionary<\/em>, ed. Jack Lynch and Anne MacDermott (Cambridge University Press, 2005), pp. 77-91.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Gove-Liebert File of Quotations from Johnson&#8217;s Dictionary,&#8221; <em>Johnsonian News Letter<\/em>, LVI (March, 2005), pp. 28-30.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Periodical Literature,&#8221; in the <em>New Cambridge History of English Literature<\/em>. Ed. John Richetti (Cambridge University Press, 2005), pp. 527-48.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Richard Bathurst,&#8221; &#8220;Robert Levet,&#8221; &#8220;George Psalmanazar.&#8221; Articles for the <em>Oxford Dictionary of National Biography<\/em> (Oxford University Press, 2004).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Johnson, Johnsonians, and &#8216;Cooperative Enterprise.'&#8221; <em>Johnsonian News Letter<\/em>, LV, No. 1 (March, 2004), pp. 20-29.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;Beneath this Marble&#8217; a Johnsonian Epitaph&#8221; (with Gordon Williams). <em>Johnsonian News Letter<\/em>, LV, No. 1 (March, 2004), pp.42-45.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Samuel Johnson in Post-revolutionary France&#8221; (with Paul Fenouillet), <em>Johnsonian News Letter<\/em>, vol. LIV, no. 1 (September, 2003), pp. 43-48.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Samuel Johnson at Vassar,&#8221; <em>Johnsonian News Letter<\/em>, vol. LIV, no. 1 (September, 2003), pp. 38-42.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;Some Remarks on the Progress of Learning&#8217;: another Preface by Samuel Johnson?&#8221; <em>New Rambler<\/em>, No. E VI (2002-03), pp. 61-74.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;Evil be thou my Good&#8217;: Scholarly Commentary and the Pleasure of Reading,&#8221; <em>TEXT<\/em>12 (1999), 91-100.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Joseph Emerson Worcester,&#8221; <em>New Dictionary of American Biography<\/em>, vol. 23. Oxford University Press, 1999: pp. 869-71.<\/p>\n<p>(With Gwin Kolb) &#8220;Dr Johnson&#8217;s Etymology of Gibberish.&#8221; <em>Notes and Queries<\/em> (March 1998), 72-4.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Johnson&#8217;s <em>Dictionary<\/em> and Dictionary Johnson,&#8221; <em>Yearbook of English Studies<\/em>, 28 (1998), 19-43.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Johnson&#8217;s <em>Dictionary<\/em>.&#8221; In <em>The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson<\/em>. Ed. Gregory Clingham. Cambridge University Press, 1997. 85-101.<\/p>\n<p>(With Gwin Kolb) &#8220;Thomas Warton&#8217;s <em>Observations on the &#8216;Faerie Queene&#8217; of Spenser<\/em>, Samuel Johnson&#8217;s &#8216;History of the English Language,&#8217; and Warton&#8217;s <em>History of English Poetry: Reciprocal Indebtedness<\/em>? Philological Quarterly, 74 (1995), pp. 327-35.<\/p>\n<p>(With Gwin Kolb) &#8220;The Preliminaries to Dr. Johnson&#8217;s <em>Dictionary<\/em>: Authorial Revisions and the Establishment of the Texts.&#8221; <em>Studies in Bibliography<\/em>, 48 (1995), 121-34.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Latter-Day Humanists and the Pastness of the Past.&#8221; <em>Common Knowledge<\/em> 3 (1993), 67-76.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Samuel Johnson and the Reading Revolution.&#8221; <em>Eighteenth-Century Life<\/em>, 16 (1992), 86-102.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Johnson&#8217;s <em>Dictionary<\/em> and the &#8216;Teutonick&#8217; Roots of English.&#8221; In <em>Language and Civilization<\/em>, ed. Claudia Bank (Berne: Peter Lang, 1992), pp. 20-36.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Politics of Johnson&#8217;s <em>Dictionary<\/em>.&#8221; <em>PMLA <\/em>104 (1989), 64-74.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Theory of Language in Johnson&#8217;s <em>Dictionary<\/em>.&#8221; In <em>Johnson after Two Hundred Years<\/em>, edited by Paul Korshin (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1986), pp. 159-74.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Johnson&#8217;s Form of Evaluation.&#8221; <em>Studies in English Literature<\/em>, 19 (1979), 501-14.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;`The Thinker as Reader&#8217;: The Figure of the Reader in the Writing of Wallace Stevens.&#8221; <em>Genre<\/em>, 12 (1979), 243-68.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Ideal Reader: A Critical Fiction.&#8221; PMLA 93 (1978), 463-74. Translated by Nadezda Vukovik for Leptopis Matitse Srpske (Belgrade), February 1979, pp. 247-64.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Coleridgean Names.&#8221; <em>JEGP<\/em> 77 (1978), 343-55.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Dramatic Form of Dryden&#8217;s Literary Criticism.&#8221; <em>The Academic Quarterly<\/em>, 5, No. 2 (1977), 65-80.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Selected Reviews<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>Jack Lynch, <em>You Could Look It Up, Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America<\/em>, 37 (2016), 185-88.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cE if for Explanation,\u201d <em>Times Literary Supplement<\/em>, March 12, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe London Effect,\u201d <em>Times Literary Supplement<\/em>, February 17, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Simple Urge to Correct\u201d: <em>Richard Bentley: Poetry and Enlightenment<\/em>, Kristine Louise Haugen, <em>Eighteenth-Century Life<\/em> 37 (2013): 125-28.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c<\/em>Conversing with Antiquity: English Poets and the Classics from Shakespeare to Pope,\u201c David Hopkins, <em>Age of Johnson<\/em> 22 (2012): 344-46.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSamuel Johnson: The Struggle,\u201d Jeffrey Meyers. <em>Johnsonian News Letter<\/em>, LX, 1 (March 2009), pp. 57-61.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Augustan Art of Poetry,&#8221; forthcoming in the <em>International Journal of the Classical Tradition<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets,&#8221; <em>Johnsonian News Letter<\/em>, LVIII, 1 (March 2007), pp. 41-45.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Johnson, Writing, Memory, Greg Clingham,&#8221; <em>Johnsonian News Letter<\/em>, LV, 1 (March 2004), pp. 56-58.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson, Treating his Published Works from the Beginnings to 1984, &#8221; J. D. Fleeman, <em>JEGP<\/em>, 101 (2002), 142-45<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property,&#8221; Kevin Hart. <em>Age of Johnson<\/em>, 13 (2001).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Evolution of English Prose, 1700-1800,&#8221; Carey McIntosh, <em>JEGP<\/em>, 100 (2001).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Samuel Johnson: the Life of an Author,&#8221; Lawrence Lipking, <em>Modern Philology<\/em>, (2001).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Selected Poems of Leopardi, trans. Eamon Grennan,&#8221; <em>Italiana Americana<\/em>, 17 (1999), 227-8.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fiabe, Giovanni Melli,&#8221; <em>Italiana Americana<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sir William Jones, Selected Works,&#8221; <em>EECB<\/em> (1997)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gentlemen and Scholars,&#8221; <em>JEGP<\/em> (1997)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Making of Johnson&#8217;s <em>Dictionary<\/em> 1746-1773,&#8221;<em>Modern Philology<\/em>, 90 (1992).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Reading in America.&#8221; <em>Nineteenth-Century Prose<\/em>, 17 (1990), 73-78.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Forgotten Lexicographers.&#8221; <em>Modern Philology,<\/em> 85 (1987), 204-206.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Selected Lectures<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Johnson and Religious Melancholy,&#8221; Halle University, Germany, May 26, 2017<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJohnson on Demand,\u201d the Thrale Lecture, London, December 12, 2016<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJohnson\u2019s Life of Shakespeare,\u201d Pembroke College, Oxford, August 9, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFraudulence and Savagery in Three Eighteenth-Century British Writers,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Pavia, November 23, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDigitizing the Works of Samuel Johnson,\u201d University of Bergamo,<\/p>\n<p>November 25, 2015<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSamuel Johnson&#8217;s Melancholy of Body, Mind, and Soul,\u201d University of<\/p>\n<p>Milan, conference on \u201cWriting the Body in Eighteenth-Century British<\/p>\n<p>Literature,\u201d December 3, 2015<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnthologizing British Literature 1640-1789,\u201d Otago University, Dunedin,<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand, March 4, 2016<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Digital Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson,\u201d Otago University,<\/p>\n<p>Dunedin, New Zealand, March 6, 2016<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEditing the Works of Samuel Johnson,\u201d at Dr. Johnson\u2019s House, London, November 19, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Digitizing English Literature: The Works of Samuel Johnson (and others) in Bits and Bytes,&#8221; University of Padua, November 5, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJohn Milton, <em>Paradise Lost<\/em>, and Metaphysical Poetry,\u201d Freiburg University, December 2, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong> \u201c<\/strong>Johnson\u2019s Lives of the Philosophers,\u201d Interdisciplinary Centre for European Enlightenment Studies, University of Halle, Germany, June 2, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe History of Editions of Samuel Johnson\u2019s Works,\u201d The George Winship Lecture, Houghton Library, Harvard University, October 25, 2012<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPublishing Johnson\u2019s Works: The First Two Hundred Years,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Huntington Library, September 9, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSamuel Johnson and Religious Melancholy,\u201d King\u2019s College, London,<\/p>\n<p>May 20, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Samuel Johnson&#8217;s Italian Learning,&#8221; University of Milan, September 30,<\/p>\n<p>2009; and University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 17, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Samuel Johnson and Change,&#8221; Pembroke College (Oxford), September 16,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Life of Johnson and Johnson\u2019s Lives,\u201d University of Barcelona, March13, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Johnson, Boswell, Plutarch and Biography in the Late Eighteenth Century,&#8221; International Association of University Professors of English, Lund, Sweden, August 6, 2007.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Johnson and the Prince of Classical Biographers,&#8221; Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, January 29, 2006<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Rationale of the Copy Text,&#8221; panel presentation at ASECS in Montreal, March 29, 2006<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Johnson and the Teutonick Roots of English,&#8221; Bristol University, January 15, 2005.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;North and South in Johnson&#8217;s Dictionary&#8221; (short version) South-Eastern Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, St. Simon&#8217;s Island, Ga, February 26, 2005.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;North and South in Johnson&#8217;s Dictionary&#8221; (full length) University of Milan, April 15, 2005.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Johnson&#8217;s <em>Dictionary<\/em> and Dictionary Johnson,&#8221; University of Florence, April 12, 2005.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Johnson&#8217;s Ex Tempore Grammar of English,&#8221; University of Bologna, April 6, 2005.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Johnson and the Gothic Shakespeare,&#8221; University of Nevada at Reno, April 30, 2005.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Who Asked Samuel Johnson to Write the <em>Dictionary<\/em> and Why?&#8221; Northwestern University, May 2004; University College, London, October 2003.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Samuel Johnson and &#8216;Cooperative Enterprise,'&#8221; Houghton Library, Harvard University, September, 2003.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Johnson&#8217;s Ex Tempore History and Grammar of the English Language,&#8221; Los Angeles, August, 2003.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Booksellers Society for the Promotion of Learning.&#8221; New York, September, 2002<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Publishers, Poets, and Johnson&#8217;s <em>Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language<\/em>.&#8221; Colorado Springs, April 8, 2002.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Gulliver&#8217;s Travels<\/em>: Truth, Lies, and the Printed Page,&#8221; New Canaan, January 17, 2002<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Samuel Johnson,&#8221; SUNY, New Paltz, October 24, 2001<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lying and Literature in the Eighteenth Century: Psalmanazar, Swift, and Johnson,&#8221; Amherst College for the Friends of the Library, May 5, 2000.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Styles of Authorship in Johnson and Swift,&#8221; Columbia University, September 9, 1999<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Samuel Johnson,&#8221; Amherst College, December 4, 1998.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;Evil be thou my good&#8217;: Confessions of an Editor,&#8221; MLA Conference, Committee on Scholarly Editing, 1997.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Johnson&#8217;s <em>Dictionary<\/em> and Dictionary Johnson,&#8221; University of Birmingham (UK), September 18, 1997.<\/p>\n<p>Guest faculty, Institutions of Enlightenment: The Invention of the Public Sphere, NEH institute at Stanford University, July 17-20, 1995.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Talons of a Scholar: How Johnson Grappled with his Books,&#8221; Rowfant Club, March 22, 1995.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Johnson&#8217;s <em>Dictionary<\/em> and Dictionary Johnson,&#8221; Blum Memorial Lecture, Samuel Johnson Society of Southern California, December 10, 1994.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Johnson&#8217;s Life of Reading,&#8221; Curtis Lecture, Vassar College, 1992 (Also given in Los Angeles and Monterrey, California)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Politics of Johnson&#8217;s <em>Dictionary<\/em>.&#8221; Princeton University, European Cultural Studies Program, April 1988.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Johnson&#8217;s Dictionary and the Philosophy of Language.&#8221; Pembroke College Conference on the Bicentennial of Johnson&#8217;s Death, June 1984.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>College Activity<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<h4>Selected Teaching Assignments<\/h4>\n<p>Eighteenth-century British Literature; Old English; Old Icelandic; The English Language; Milton; British Literature from Beowulf to Wollstonecraft; History of Literary Criticism; An Introduction to Scientific Inquiry for Students of the Humanities (team taught); Transformations of the Word (team taught); Forms of Poetry; The Book as Medium (team taught); The Classical Tradition in British Poetry (team taught)<\/p>\n<h4>Selected Committee Assignments<\/h4>\n<p>Search committees: Head of Library, Special Collections Director, Dean of Faculty, Head of CIS, President of the College; Academic Panel (lead writer of <em>Originality and Attribution<\/em>); Library Committee (numerous years; chair, 2003-4); Housing Committee (chair, 2000); Committee on Committees (chair, 1999); Library construction committee (1999-2001); Library 2000 committee (1993-94); Dean&#8217;s Cabinet (2005-7); Learning and Teaching Center Review committee, 2006 (chair); Assessment Committee (chair, 2003-4); Media Studies Development committee and Media Studies steering committee (2000- ); Recording secretary of the faculty (1983-86); House Fellow (1983-86); Sloan Grant advisory committee and director of the humanities portion of the grant (1983-88); College Course steering committee; computer committee; master planning committee.<\/p>\n<h4>Departmental Service<\/h4>\n<p>Chair, 1987-90, 2001-07; numerous search committee both as chair and not: by my count, I was chair or chair of the search committee responsible for hiring twenty present members of the department and several more who have departed for various reasons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education A.B. Amherst College, 1970 Ph.D. Rutgers University, 1975 diss. &#8220;Critical Worlds,&#8221; directed by Paul Fussell Employment Assistant Professor, Vassar College, 1975-1983 Associate Professor, Vassar College, 1983-1989 Henry Noble MacCracken Professor of English Literature, Vassar College, 1989- Adminstrative Appointments Director, Middle States Reaccreditation for Vassar (2007-9) Director, Vassar Mellon Grant for Teaching with Technology (1997-2001). 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