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Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English and American Literature; Director, The Re:Enlightenment Project at New York University and the New York Public Library
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Ph.D. 1978, M.A. 1975, University of Virginia; B.A. 1972 Stanford University.
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Areas of Research/Interest: Literary, social, and technological change, 1700-1850 (British); print culture and digital culture; literary theory and genre theory; the organization of knowledge.
Select Publications:
Blaming the System: Enlightenment and the Forms of Modernity (forthcoming).
The Work of Writing: Literature and Social Change in Britain 1700-1830. Johns Hopkins University Press. 1998.
The Historicity of Romantic Discourse. Oxford University Press. 1988.
Affiliations: Co-editor, Palgrave Studies in Enlightenment, Romanticism, and the Cultures of Print; Editorial and Advisory Boards--Eighteenth-Century Studies, Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Literature and History, Genre, Novel, Studies in the Novel, Encyclopedia of Romanticism, Corvey Project on Women's Writing; Member--MLA, ASECS, BARS, NASSR, Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society.
Fellowships/Honors: Waynflete Lecturer and Honorary Fellow, Magdalen College, Oxford; Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Glasgow University, Fellow, Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University; Visiting Scholar, Stanford Humanities Center; Roger Henkle Memorial Lecturer, Brown University; Elected to Executive Committees--Late Eighteenth-Century Division MLA, Romantic Division MLA, British Association for Romantic Studies.
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