David Marshall
Dean, Humanities and Fine Arts
Professor, Department of English
University of California, Santa Barbara
Education:
| 1975-1979 | Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Humanities Center, Johns Hopkins University |
| 1971-1975 | B.A., Cornell University (with distinction in all subjects) |
Academic Appointments
| 1999- | Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| 1997-1999 | Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Northwestern University |
| 1989-1997 | Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Yale University |
| 1985-1989 | Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Yale University |
| 1981-1985 | Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Yale Unviersity |
| 1979-1981 | Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Yale University |
Honors and Fellowships
| 1996-1997 | Visiting Scholar, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, University of California at Santa Barbara |
| 1991-1993 | Fellow, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University |
| 1989-1990 | Guggenheim Fellowship |
| 1989 | Prize for Best Non-Plenary Lecture, Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies |
| 1983-1984 | Morse Fellowship for Junior Faculty, Yale University |
| 1982-1985 | Fellow, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University |
| 1975-1979 | Johns Hopkins University Fellowship |
| 1975 | Phi Beta Kappa, Cornell University |
| 1975 | Corson Morrison French Prize, Cornell University |
| 1971-1975 | Telluride Scholar, Cornell University |
| 1971-1975 | College Scholar, Cornell University |
Publications
~The Figure of Theater: Shaftesbury, Defoe, Adam Smith, and George
Eliot (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986)
~The Surprising Effects of Sympathy: Marivaux, Diderot, Rousseau, and
Mary Shelley (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988)
~"The Business of Tragedy: Accounting for Sentiment in Julia de Roubigné
," in Sensibility, Sex, and Madness, ed. Maximillian Novak
and Anne Mellor, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (in press)
~"Ut Pictura Poesis," Cambridge History of Literary Criticism (Cambridge University Press, 1997)
~"The Picturesque," Cambridge History of Literary Criticism (Cambridge University Press, 1997)
~"Shaftesbury and Addison: Authors, Readers, and Spectators," Cambridge History of Literary Criticism (Cambridge University Press,
1997)
~"Clarissa and the Death of Julie," in The Clarissa Project:
The Critical Controversy; New Commentaries, ed. Edward Copeland
and Carol Houlihan Flynn (New York: AMS Press, 1997)
~"Arguing by Analogy: Hume's Standard of Taste," Eighteenth-Century
Studies 28 (1995): 322-343
~"Writing Masters and 'Masculine Exercises' in The Female Quixote," Eighteenth-Century Fiction 5 (1993): 105-135
~"True Acting and the Language of Real Feeling: Mansfield Park," The Yale Journal of Criticism 3 (Fall, 1989): 87-106
~"The Eye-Witnesses of The Borderers," Studies in
Romanticism 27 (Fall 1988): 391-398
~"Similes and Delay," Modern Critical Views: Homer, ed.
Harold Bloom (New York: Chelsea House, 1986)
~"Rousseau and the State of Theater," Representations 13 (Winter 1986): 84-114 [Reprinted in Modern Critical Views: Rousseau,
ed. Harold Bloom (New York: Chelsea House, 1988)]
~"Adam Smith and the Theatricality of Moral Sentiments," Critical
Inquiry 10 (June 1984): 592-613
~"Exchanging Visions: Reading A Midsummer Night's Dream," ELH 49 (Fall 1982): 543-575 [Reprinted in Shakespearean Criticism,
III, ed. Harris and Scott (Detroit: Gale, 1986)]
~"Reading Tasting," Glyph Textual Studies 6 (1979): 123-140
Work in Progress:
~Representation Compulsions [A study of the problematic status of art in eighteenth-century fiction and aesthetics: readings of Addison, Shaftesbury, Hume, Kames, Lessing, Pope, Uvedale Price, Richard Payne Knight, Defoe, Charlotte Lennox, Mackenzie, Richardson, Rousseau, Wordsworth, Austen, and Coetzee]
Invited Lectures:
~"Representing the Picturesque," Literature Program, California
Institute of Technology, January 1998
~"The Problem of the Picturesque," English Department, Boston
University, February 1997
~"The Problem of the Picturesque," Interdisciplinary Humanities
Center, University of California, Santa Barbara, March 1997
~"The Business of Tragedy," Department of English, University
of California, Santa Barbara, March 1997
~"The Business of Tragedy: Accounting for Sentiment in Julia de
Roubigné ," Plenary Address, Eighteenth-Century Scottish
Studies Society, Grenoble, France, July 1996
~"The Problem of the Picturesque," New School for Social Research,
New York, January 1996
~"Accounting for Sentiment, Paying for Art," UCLA Center for
17th- and 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial
Library, Los Angeles, October 1995
~"'In the Like Manner': Hume's Standard of Taste," English Department,
Princeton University, December 1992
~"Theories of the Picturesque," NEH Summer Institute
on Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics, The Johns Hopkins University, July 1990
~"Theories of Ut Pictura Poesis," NEH Summer Institute
on Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics, The Johns Hopkins University, July 1990
~"True Acting and the Language of Real Feeling: Mansfield Park,"
The English Institute, Harvard University, August 1988
~"Frankenstein and the Monstrous Image of Sympathy,"
Comparative Literature Program, Vanderbilt University, March 1987
~"Frankenstein and the Monstrous Image of Sympathy,"
English and Comparative Literature Departments, University of Minnesota,
February 1987
~"Frankenstein and the Monstrous Image of Sympathy,"
English Department, University of California at Berkeley, December 1986
~"Price and the Ideology of the Picturesque," English Department,
Cornell University, October 1985
~"Rousseau's Necessary Spectacles," Program in European Cultural
Studies, Princeton University, April 1984
~"The Theater of Sympathy," Humanities Center, Johns Hopkins
University, December 1982
Conference Papers and Other Lectures:
~"The Death of Julie and Other Representation Compulsions,"
Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of California
at Berkeley, February 1997
~"The Business of Sentiment in Julia de Roubigné ,"
Modern Language Association, Chicago, December 1995
~"The Necessity of Texts," Conference on "Remapping the
Boundaries: A New Perspective on Comparative Studies," Universita
degli Studi di Bologna, Italy, May, 1994
~"Despotism and Democratic Vistas," Modern Language Association,
New York, December 1992
~"What is Obvious in Hume's 'Of the Standard of Taste,'" Hume
Society Conference, Université de Nantes, June 1992
~"Wordsworth and the Autobiography of the Picturesque," Yale
Alumni College Abroad, Grasmere, July 1991
~"Living Tableaux, Dead Images: Julie," Modern Language Association,
Chicago, December 1990
~"Masculine Exercises in The Female Quixote," Northeast
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Society, University of Massachusetts
at Amherst, November 1990
~"Foe: Command of Words, Power of Speech," Northeast American
Society for Eighteenth-Century Society, University of Massachusetts at
Amherst, November 1990
~"Readers and ," East-West Seminar, International Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies, Paris, August 1990
~"From Text to Tableau: So to Speak," Midwestern American Society
for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Columbus, November 1989
~"Transporting the Reader: Kames and Du Bos," Canadian Society
for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Montréal, October 1989
~"The Language of Real Feeling," Modern Language Association,
New Orleans, December 1988
~"Robinson Crusoe: Composing a Self," Yale University Alumni
College, June 1988
~"Foe: Autobiography and the Power of Speech," Yale University
Alumni College, June 1988
~"The Eye-Witnesses of The Borderers," Symposium on Wordsworth
and the Borders of Romanticism, Yale University, November 1987
~"Rousseau and the State of Theater," Modern Language Association,
Chicago, December 1985
~Chair, Session on 18th-Century French Literature, "Critical Reflections
on the Abbé Du Bos," Northeast Modern Language Association,
Hartford, March 1985
~"Diderot and the Language of Forms," Modern Language Association,
Washington, D.C., December 1984
~"Delay, Digression, and Death in the Iliad," Modern
Language Association, New York City, December 1983
~"'Figures in the Landscape'" Notes on the Ideology of the Picturesque,"
Symposium on Land and Landscape in the Eighteenth Century, Yale Center
for British Art, New Haven, April 1983
~Organizer and Moderator, Re-reading the Literature Major: A Tenth Anniversary
Symposium, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, April 1983
~"Rousseau and the Ink of Sympathy," Northeast Modern Language
Association, Erie, PA, April 1983
~"Rousseau and the Ink of Sympathy," Eastern Comparative Literature
Conference, New York University, April 1982
~"From Readers to Spectators: Transformations and Translations,"
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, San Francisco, April
1980
~"Kames Describing Description," Yale Center for British Art,
New Haven, December 1980
Administrative Positions:
University of California, Santa Barbara
| 1999- | Dean, Humanities and Fine Arts |
Yale University
| 1994-1997 | Director, Whitney Humanities Center |
| 1993-1994 | Chairman, Department of English |
| 1992 | Acting Director, Whitney Humanities Center |
| 1991-1992 | Acting Chairman, Department of Comparative Literature |
| 1990-1992 | Director, The Literature Major |
1992-1993 |
Director of Graduate Studies, Comparative Literature |
| 1988 1985-1986 |
Acting Director, The Literature Major |
| 1982-1987 | Director of Undergraduate Studies for Literature and Comparative Literature, The Literature Major |
Professional Activities:
| 1997- | Editorial Board, Eighteenth-Century Studies |
| 1997- | Committee on Honors and Awards, Modern Language Association |
| 1996 | External Evaluator, Comparative Literature Program, Colorado College |
| 1995-1996 | Chair, Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies Selection Committee, Modern Language association |
| 1995 | External Evaluator, Council on the Humanities, Princeton University |
| 1993-1994 | Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies Selection Committee, Modern Language Association |
| 1992 | Chair, Division on Comparative Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature, Modern Language Association |
| 1993-1994 | Nathan Award for Drama Criticism Selection Committee |
| 1992-1994 | Delegate, Delegate Assembly, Modern Language Association |
| 1989-1993 | Division Executive Committee, Comparative Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature, Modern Language Association |
| 1992-1995 | Advisory Editor for Comparative Literature, Eighteenth-Century Studies |
| 1974-1976 | Board of Directors, Telluride Association Summer Programs Evaluator for American Council of Learned Societies Fellowships, Woodrow Wilson Fellowships, MacArthur Foundation Reader for Cornell University Press, Duke University Press, Ohio State University Press, University of California Press, University of Chicago Press, St. Martin's Press, University of Pennsylvania Press, PMLA, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Eighteenth-Century Fiction |
Committee Assignments:
Comparative Literary Studies Steering Committee; English Department Appointments Committee; English Department Personnel Committee (elected); Faculty Associate, Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Theatre and Drama Program
Yale University
University and College
Chair, Committee on the Economic Status of the Faculty (1995-1996); Graduate
School Degree Committee (1995-1996); Advisory Committee, Mellon Center
for British Art (1994-1997); Faculty of Arts and Sciences Committee on
Governance (1992-1993); Yale College Steering Committee (1991-1993); University
Term Appointments Committee (1990-1991); Morse Junior Faculty Fellowship
Selection Committee (1990-1992); Keasby Fellowship Committee (1985-1986);
Junior Year Abroad Committee (1981-1983); Henry Fellowship Committee (1982)
English Department
Chair, Drama Search Committee (1994-1996); Undergraduate Studies Committee
(1992); Modernist Search Committee, Departments of English and Comparative
Literature (1992-1993); Chair, Lectures Committee (1990-1992); Graduate
Studies Committee (1990-1992, 1994-1995); Chair, Renaissance Search Committee,
Departments of English and Comparative Literature (1989-1990); Curriculum
Committee (1988-1989); Future of the Department Committee (1987-1989);
Aims and Procedures Committee [elected] (1987-1989; 1995-1996); Honors
and Prizes Committee (1986-1988); Teaching Evaluation Committee (1984-1985);
Junior Appointments Committee (1985-1986)
Comparative Literature Department
Senior Search Committee (1994-1996); Student-Faculty Liaison Committee (1991-1996); Governing Board, Literature Major (1980-1992); Graduate Admissions Committee (1988-1996); Chair, Renaissance Search Committee, Departments of English and Comparative Literature (1989-1990); Curriculum Committee (1988-1989); Junior Appointments Committee (1979-1990, 1994-1996)
Whitney Humanities Center
Committee on the Future (1991-1993); Mellon Fellowship Selection Committee (1991); External Fellowship Selection Committee (1991); Luce Visiting Scholar Selection Committee (1982)