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Education:
| 1968 |
B.A., Chinese Literature, University of Pennsylvania |
| 1977 |
M.A./Ph.D., English Literature, Johns Hopkins University |
Academic Appointments:
| 1997-present |
Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| 1977-1997 |
Assistant, Associate, & Full Professor, State University
of New York, Buffalo |
| 1968-1970 |
Sixth Grade Teacher, Los Angeles City Schools |
Honors and Awards:
| 1988-1989 |
ACLS Fellowship for study of "Conduct and the Novel" |
| 1991 |
Clark Library Fellowship, Summer |
Publications:
Books
~Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain (1684-1750), Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998, 325 pp.
~Cultural Institutions of the Novel, ed. with Deirdre Lynch, Durham
and London: Duke University Press, 1996, 488 pp.
~Chance and the Text of Experience: Freud, Nietzsche, and Shakespeare's
Hamlet, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986, 308 pp.
~Reading Clarissa: The Struggles of Interpretation, New Haven:
Yale University Press, 1979, pp. 274
Articles
~"The Elevation of the Novel in England: Hegemony and Literary History," ELH, 59, 1992, pp. 577-596
~"Social Power and the Novel: Foucault and Transparent Literary History," Eighteenth Century Fiction, 3:3, 1991, pp. 185-203
~"The Resistance to Popular Culture," American Literary History,
2:4, 1990, pp. 726-742
~"The Social Ethos of the Novel: McKeon's Not So Social Allegory
of the Novel's Origins," Criticism, 32:2, 1990, pp. 241-253
~"Taking Dialectic with a Grain of Salt: A Reply to McKeon," Diacritics, 20:1, 1990, pp. 104-107
~"Realist Literary History: McKeon's New Origins of the Novel," Diacritics, 19:1, 1989, pp. 62-81
~"Spectacular Seduction: The Case of Freud, Masson & Malcolm," Raritan, 6:3, 1987, pp. 122-136
~"A Nuclear Analysis of the Korean Airline Disaster," with Richard
Klein, Diacritics, 16:1, 1986, pp. 2-21
~"Dior's Designs," Word & Image, 2:3, 1985, pp. 351-379
~"'Love in Life': The Case of Nietzsche and Lou Salome," The
Victorian Newsletter, Spring, 1985, pp. 14-17
~"Redeeming Interpretation," Eighteenth Century: Theory and
Interpretation, 26:1, 1985, pp. 73-94
~"Reading Rape: Marxist-Feminist Figurations of the Literal," Diacritics, 14:4, 1983, pp. 12-32
~"Proposal and Habitation: The Temporality and Authority of Interpretation
in and about a Scene of Richardson's Clarissa," Boundary
2, Vol. 8, Winter, 1979, pp. 169-200
~"The Play of Fictions and Succession of Styles in Ulysses," The James Joyce Quarterly, Vol. 15, Fall, 1977, pp. 18-35
Contributions to Books
~"The Transport of the Novel," (Introduction with Deirdre Lynch), Cultural Institutions of the Novel, Durham and London: Duke University
Press, 1996, pp. 1-10
~"Formulating Fiction: Romancing the General Reader in Early Modern
Britain," Cultural Institutions of the Novel, Durham and London:
Duke University Press, 1996, pp. 279-305
~"Licensing Pleasure: Literary History and the Novel in Early Modern
Britain," The Columbia History of the British Novel, ed. John
Richetti, New York: Columbia University Press, 1994, pp. 1-22
~"Spectacular Action: Rambo, Reaganism, and the Cultural Articulations
of the Hero," Cultural Studies, ed. Nelson, Grossberg, and
Triechler, Routledge, 1992, pp. 672-688
~"Treating Me Like an Object: Reading Catharine Anne MacKinnon," Feminism and Institutions, ed. Linda Kauffman, Blackwell's, 1989,
pp. 90-126
Reviews
~Review of Douglas Canfield, Word as Bond, forthcoming in The
Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography
~Review of Canfield and Hunter, Rhetorics of Order/Ordering Rhetorics
in English Neoclassical Literature, forthcoming in The Eighteenth
Century: A Current Bibliography
~Review of Ronald Paulson, The Beautiful, Novel and Strange, MLN, Comparative Literature, 1996
~Review of Leo Damrosch, ed. The Profession of Eighteenth-Century Literature:
Reflections on an Institution, Eighteenth Century Studies,
27:3, 1994, pp. 497-501
~Review of Doody and Sabor, eds. Samuel Richardson: Tercentenary Essays, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 90:4, 1991, pp. 572-574
~Review of G. Douglas Atkins, Quests of Difference: Reading Pope's
Poems, Eighteenth Century Studies, 22:4, 1989, pp. 570-574
~Review of Masquerade and Civilization, MLN, 103:5, 1989,
pp. 1144-1147
~Review of Story and Situation: Narrative Seduction and the Power of
Fiction, Criticism, 27:2, 1985, pp. 207-211
~Review of William Kerrigan, ed. Taking Chances: Derrida, Psychoanalysis,
and Literature, MLN, 99:5, 1984, pp. 1195-1202
~Review of Maurice Funke, From Saint to Psychotic, The Eighteenth
Century: A Current Bibliography, V, pp. 440-441
Lectures/Papers Presented:
| 1976 |
"Applied Structuralism in the Novel," MLA |
| 1979 |
"Clarissa and the Struggles of Interpretation,"
ASECS, Atlanta |
| 1980 |
"Aristotle and Chance," talk presented at
a seminar, Cornell University |
| 1983 |
"Thought vs. Life in Nietzsche's work," Lacan
and Post Structuralism, Ottawa |
| 1984 |
"Nietzsche and Lou Salome," MLA
"Jeffery Masson's Seductive Revision of Freud," MLA |
| 1985 |
Dior's Designs," North Carolina State University
"Dior's Designs," George Mason University
"The Heroine's Blush," Cornell University 18th Century Conference |
| 1987 |
"Chance and the Text: Borges' 'Garden of Forking
Paths'," Vassar College
"Reading the Culture of Spectacle," panel organizer and
chair, MLA |
| 1988 |
"Treating Me Like an Object: Reading Catharine
Anne MacKinnon," MLA
"Gender and Theory," in panel, MLA |
| 1989 |
"Spectacular Action: Rambo and Reaganism,"
talk presented at University of Ljublana, Slovenia |
| 1990 |
"The Elevation of the Novel in England," ASECS,
Minnesota |
| 1991 |
"The Gaze of the Replicant; or Blade Runner and Cultural Criticism," Johns Hopkins University |
| 1992 |
"A Dialogical Literary Historical Reading of Behn's Love Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister, Aphra Behn
Conference |
| 1993 |
"Pornography and Narrative," panel organizer,
ASECS, Seattle
"Rethinking the Novel," presenter and organizer with John
Bender, Cultural Studies Caucus, ASECS, Providence
"Hogarth and the Novel of Amorous Intrigue," panel organizer
and presenter, Yale Conference, "Visualizing the Eighteenth Century" |
| 1993-1994 |
"Going to Extremes," Chair, Late Eighteenth
Century Panel, MLA, December
"Licensing Pleasure: The Elevation of the Novel in Early Modern
Britain," lecture presented at the Department of English, UCSB,
June 2 |
| 1994 |
"Free Speech and Loose Speech: from Novel to the
First Amendment," Chair, Cultural Studies Panel, ASECS, Charleston |
| 1994-1995 |
"Free Speech on Free Speech," with Elizabeth
MacArthur, Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Rochester, November
"Libertine Speech and the Public Sphere," with Elizabeth
MacArthur, MLA, December
"The Scandal of the Reading Body," in the session, "The
Woman Reader," ASECS, Austin, March
"The Eighteenth Century Information Highway," panel co-chair
and respondent, ASECS, Tucson, April |
| 1996-1997 |
"The Scandal of the Novel Reading Body, Modern
Language Association, December |
| 1997-1998 |
"Licensing Entertainment," Southern California
Enlightenment Group, UCLA, October
"Licensing Entertainment," Tudor Stuart Club, Johns Hopkins,
February |
| 1998-1999 |
"Media Technology Ambivalence," SUNY, Buffalo,
October; Modern Language Association, December; University of California,
Berkeley, February
"Media in Transition," Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
October |
| 1999-2000 |
"Enlightenment Media Systems," Chair, ASECS,
Philadelphia |
Conferences and Lecture Series Organized:
| 1982 |
Conference (with Roy Roussel): Performing the Person:
Displacements of Life Narrative [Carolee Schneeman, Cary Nelson, Tom
Conley, Ray Federman] |
| 1985 |
Lecture Series: Feminist Theory [Miriam Hansen, Christine
Froula, Nancy Vickers, Biddy Martin] |
| 1986 |
Lecture Series: Cultural Studies Center [T.J. Clark,
Samuel Weber, Andrew Ross, Andrew Parker]
Conference (with Charlie Kahane): IMAGE/TEXT/Psychoanalysis [Mark
Crispin Miller, Cary Nelson, Norman Holland] |
| 1987 |
Lecture Series: Eighteenth Century Literary and Cultural
Studies [John Bender, J. Paul Hunter, Rick Bogel, Ronald Paulson] |
| 1988 |
Conference (with Carol Zemel): Feminism and Mass Culture
[Mary Ann Doane, Kaja Silverman, Tanya Modleski, Devon Hodges, Jan
Doane} |
| 1991 |
Mini-conference: Psychoanalysis and Culture [Joan Copjec,
Slavoi Zizek, Kaja Silverman] |
University and Public Service:
Department
| 1984-1985 |
McNulty Chair Search Committee, State University of
New York, Buffalo, Department of English |
| 1986-1988 |
Graduate Student Placement Director, State University
of New York, Buffalo, Department of English |
| 1990-1991 |
Chair, Senior Recruitment, State University of New York,
Buffalo, Department of English
Chair, Junior Recruitment, State University of New York, Buffalo,
Department of English |
| 1997-1998 |
Member, Undergraduate Committee, University of California,
Santa Barbara, Department of English |
| 1998-1999 |
Chair, Undergraduate Committee, University of English,
Santa Barbara, Department of English |
Campus
| 1979-1980 |
Faculty Senate Executive Committee, State University
of New York, Buffalo |
| 1979-1982 |
Faculty Senate, State University of New York, Buffalo |
| 1982-1984 |
Chair, Library Committee, State University of New York,
Buffalo |
| 1990-1991 |
Chair, Long Range Planning Committee, State University
of New York, Buffalo |
| 1997-1998 |
Program Review Panel, University of California, Santa
Barbara |
Professional Memberships:
American Society for Eighteenth Century (ASECS)
Modern Language Association (MLA)
International Association for Philosophy and Literature (IAPL)
Manuscript Reviews:
Princeton University Press, Cornell University Press, Stanford University
Press, University of California Press, Cambridge University Press, Oxford
University Press, Johns Hopkins, University Press, National Endorsement
for the Humanities
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