PERSONAL

Date of Birth: July 22, l937

Married: (1960, to Anne Lanni); three children (born 1963, 1965, 1967)

EDUCATION

B.S., LeMoyne College, 1959

M.A., Syracuse University, 1962

Ph.D., Yale University, 1966

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

University of Chicago: Assistant Professor, 1966-69; Associate Professor, 1969-72; Professor, 1972-75

Johns Hopkins University: Professor, 1975-80

Bread Loaf School of English: summers, 1978-80

California Institute of Technology: Dreyfuss Professor of Humanities, 1980-1986

University of Southern California: Adjunct Professor of English, 1983-86

University of Virginia:Commonwealth Professor, 1986-93; John Stewart Bryan University Professor, 1993-

Royal Holloway College, U. of London: The Thomas Holloway Professor of Victorian Studies, 1999-2002

INSTITUTIONAL WORK

Director, Literature Program: California Institute of Technology, 1980-1986

Director, International Conference on Textual Studies and Literary Interpretation: Caltech 198

Director, International Conference on Historical Studies and Literary Criticism: Caltech, 1984

Co-Designer (with Steve Cushman), Introduction to Literary Studies Course (basic gateway course for the UVA English major): University of Virginia, 1993

Co-Founder (with Edward Ayers, Alan Batson, Kendon Stubbs, William Wolf), Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities: University of Virginia, 1993-

Director, Center for Cultural Change: University of Virginia, 1995

Founder and Director, MA Program in Victorian Media and Culture: Royal Holloway College, U. of London, 1999-2005

Co-Founder (with Johanna Drucker): Speculative Computing Laboratory (SPECLAB) , University of Virginia, 2001-

Founder and Project Director: ARP (Applied Research in 'Patacriticism) , U. of Virginia, 2003-

Founder and Co-Director: NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship , 2003-

 

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