ࡱ>  @bjbj@@ :L"j"j"n n 8L4 5&:>NNN)V33333331793))3NN43 3 3 NN33 33 3 .|^/NHk~U.340 5.i:i:$^/i:^/3 33  5i:n X :  Adam Potkay Curriculum Vitae Last Updated: 5 January, 2026 Permanent Office Address: Dept. of English, 91Ƭ P.O. Box 8795, Williamsburg, Virginia, 23187-8795 E-mail:  HYPERLINK "mailto:aspotk@wm.edu" aspotk@wm.edu Permanent Home Address: 710 Hamilton Street, Williamsburg, Virginia 23185-4503 Education Ph.D. Rutgers University, English 1990 M.A. The Johns Hopkins University, English 1986 B.A. Cornell University 1982 Academic Positions The College of 91Ƭ: Chair of the English Department, 2013- 2016 William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Humanities, 2009- Professor 2001- Associate Professor 1996-2001 Assistant Professor 1990-1996 Princeton University: Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Professor of Distinguished Teaching, University Center for Human Values, 2018-19 Washington University, St. Louis: Hurst Distinguished Visiting Professor, October 2017 Charles University, Prague: Director of the W&M Summer Program, May-June 2015; May-June 2017 Columbia University: Visiting Professor, Fall 2001 The University of Aberdeen, UK: Visiting Professor, Fall 1997 Rutgers University: Lecturer, 1986-88 Johns Hopkins University: Teaching Assistant, 1984-85 Honors and Awards Hope: A Literary History short-listed by the Wordsworth-Coleridge Association for the 2022 Marilyn Gaull Book Award ASECS (American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) Chair of the 2020-2021 Gottschalk Prize Committee (selects best book in multidisciplinary eighteenth-century studies) Election to MLA Delegate Assembly, Middle Atlantic Delegate, December 2019 Appointment as Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Professor of Distinguished Teaching, Princeton University, 2018-9 Finalist for Editorship of PMLA, October 2015 Invited to serve on the American Comparative Literature Association Ren Wellek Prize Committee, 9/2013 (declined) College of 91Ƭ, Arts & Sciences Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence, 2012-3 Harry Levin Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association, for the Best Book in Literary History and Literary Criticism, 2006-8 (for The Story of Joy, 2007) William R. Kenan, Jr. Professorship of Humanities, 2009- College of 91Ƭ, Plumeri Award for Faculty Excellence, 2009-11 PMLA Editorial Board, 2008-2010 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2006-07 Appointment to write SEL Summer 2008 omnibus review essay, Recent Studies in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century Margaret L. Hamilton Term Professorship in English, 2005-8 Phi Beta Kappa Award for the Advancement of Scholarship, Alpha of Virginia, 1997 College of 91Ƭ Alumni Fellowship Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1996 Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools Dissertation Award, 1993 (Awarded to the best dissertation in the Humanities, 1988-93) Rutgers University: Graduate Excellence Fellowship, 1985-89; Louis Bevier Fellowship, 1989-90 PBK, Cornell University, 1981 Languages: Reading ability in Greek, Latin, French; limited Italian, Czech. Scholarship Books Written 7. Freedom and Determinism in Philosophy and Literature (typescript, recently completed) 6. Hope: A Literary History (Cambridge University Press, 2022). 285 pp. short-listed by the Wordsworth-Coleridge Association for the 2022 Marilyn Gaull Book Award 5. Wordsworths Ethics (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012). 254 pp. Paperback, 2015. 4. The Story of Joy from the Bible to Late Romanticism (Cambridge University Press, 2007). 304 pp. Paperback, 2009. Co-Winner of the Harry Levin Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association, for the Best Book in Literary History and Literary Criticism, 2006-8 Translations: A histria da Alegria da Biblia ao Romantismo tardio, trans. into Portuguese by Eduardo Henrik Aubert (So Paulo: Editora Globa, 2010). 422 pp. Istoria Bucuriei de la Biblie pn la Romantismul Trziu, trans. into Romanian by Dana Bdulescu and Oana Petrovici (Bucharest: Tipo Moldova, 2010). 391 pp. 3. The Passion for Happiness: Samuel Johnson and David Hume (Cornell University Press, 2000). 241 pp. 2. An Education on the Delaware: St. Mary's Hall and Doane Academy, 1837-1999 (Burlington, NJ: Burlington County Historical Society, 2000). 107 pp. The Fate of Eloquence in the Age of Hume (Cornell University Press, 1994). 253 pp. Edited Volumes 6. Ed., with Dietmar Till (University of Tbingen), In The Cambridge History of Rhetoric, 5 volumes, Volume 3, Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries (1650-1900), 300,000 words/45 essays, contracted 7/2018, forthcoming 2026. 5. Ed., with D.J. Moores, James Engell, Emma Mason, James Pawelski, and Susan Wolfson. On Human Flourishing: A Poetry Anthology (McFarland & Co., 2015). 308 pp. 4. Ed., Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews (Longman Cultural Edition, 2007 [dated 2008]). 366 pp. 3. Ed., with Sandra Burr. Black Atlantic Writers of the Eighteenth Century: Living the New Exodus in England and the Americas. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995). 268 pp. Ed., The Interdisciplinary Approach: Essays in Honor of Robert Maccubbin. A special issue of Eighteenth-Century Life (Duke University Press Journals, 2001). 273 pp. Ed., with Robert Maccubbin. Manners of Reading: Essays in Honor of Thomas R. Edwards. A special issue of Eighteenth-Century Life (Johns Hopkins University Press Journals, 1992). 271 pp. Audiobooks/Recorded Lectures: Heaven in a Wild Flower: A Guide to British Romantic Poetry. 14-lecture series. 7 cds with 55 pp. booklet/ Audio download. Frederick, Md: Recorded Books, 2010. The Great Good Book: The Bible and Western Literature. 14-lecture series, co-written with Monica Brzezinski Potkay. 7 cds/cassettes with 108 pp. booklet/ Audio download. Frederick, Md.: Recorded Books/New York: Barnes & Noble, 2003. Articles (and *article reprints): 61 articles plus reprints and translations. World Johnson, forthcoming in The Scriblerian & Kit-Kats, 59:1 (2026). Poetry and Rhetoric, forthcoming in The Cambridge History of Rhetoric volume 3, ed. Potkay and Till, CUP 2026. Rhetoric and Philosophy from Cicero to Adam Smith: Tropes, Dialogue, Self-Division, forthcoming in The Cambridge History of Rhetoric, volume 3, ed. Potkay and Till, CUP 2026. Concordia Discors at Worlds End: Pope, Voltaire, Wordsworth, Modern Philology 123:1 (August 2025): 67-86. Hope in Books, in Hope for Life on Our Planet, ed. Osvald Bjelland (New York: Manhattan Book Group, 2025), 346-49. How like he was to Rousseau: Johnson on Social Evils and Future Happiness, The Johnson News Letter 76:1 (March 2025), 30-41; https://johnsoniannewsletter.org/archive/  Wonder, Intuition, Romanticism: WojtyBa, Scheler, Wordsworth, Ethos no. 149 [38:1] (2025): 93-107.  Virtue or Vice? A Short Literary History of Hope, in The Virtue of Hope, ed. Nancy Snow (Oxford University Press, 2024), 47-71. Enlightenment and Sensibility: The Problem of Evil, The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer 38:1 (2024): 20-32. Hope, in The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, Ed. Jack Lynch (Oxford University Press, 2022), 582-98. Frankenstein in the History of Happiness: From Ancient Ethics to Richard Wright, The Keats-Shelley Review 34:1 (2020): 35-45. Lucretius, Englishman: Meter, Mortalism, and Love in Drydens Translations from De Rerum Natura, Eighteenth-Century Life (September 2019):1-22. Wordsworths Hope, The Wordsworth Circle (Summer 2019): 265-89. Humes Of Suicide and its French Reception: Necessity and Native Liberty, in When in the Course of Human Events: 1776 at Home and Abroad, ed. Will Jordan (Mercer University Press, 2018), 76-92. Something Evermore about to Be: The Transformation of Hope in the Romantic Era/ Polish translation (Dorota Chabrajska), O CZYMZ,  CO WIECZNIE JU{-JU{ MA SI ZIZCI : Przemiany nadziei w epoce romantyzmu, Ethos no. 119 (2017): 153-87.  Rhetoric and Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century, in The Oxford Handbook of Rhetorical Studies, ed. Michael MacDonald (Oxford University Press, 2017), 535-46. Pity, Gratitude, and the Poor in Rousseau and Adam Smith, in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture vol. 46, 2017, 163-82. Contested Emotions: Pity and Gratitude from the Stoics to Swift and Wordsworth, PMLA 130:5 (October 2015):1332-46. Joseph Andrews and the European Novel, in Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Henry Fielding, ed. Elizabeth Kraft and Jennifer Wilson (New York: MLA, 2015), 77-82. The Fascination of Whats Difficult, in The Pocket Instructor: Literature, ed. Diana Fuss and Bill Gleeson (Princeton University Press, 2015), 260-62.  The Humanities in the American University: A Belle poque? / Humanistyka na Uniwersytecie AmerykaDskim. La Belle poque (Polish trans., Dorota Chabrajska), Ethos no. 109 (2015): 169-87. Wordsworths Ethical Thinking, in The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth, ed. Richard Gravil and Daniel Robinson (Oxford University Press, 2015), 679-92. The Virgilian Way from Milton to Wordsworth, in A Companion to British Literature, vol. 3, Long Eighteenth-Century Literature, 1660-1837, ed. Robert DeMaria, Heesok Chang, and Samantha Zacker (Blackwell, 2014), 62-77. Teaching Drydens Latin Translations: Lucretius, Virgil, and the Honeybee, in Approaches to Teaching the Works of John Dryden, ed. Jayne Lewis and Lisa Zunshine (New York: MLA, 2013), 158-63. Discursive and Philosophic Prose [The Transformation of the Ancient Schools in Eighteenth-Century Philosophical Prose], in The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature, vol. 3, 1660-1790, ed. David Hopkins and Charles Martindale (Oxford University Press, 2012). Pp. 593-613. Foreword (new) and *The Career of Joy in the Twentieth Century (*reprinted from The Story of Joy pp. 220-36), in The Eudaimonic Turn: Well-Being in Literary Studies, ed. James O. Pawelski and Donald J. Moores (Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2012). Pp. xi-xiv; 247-64. The British Romantic Sublime, in The Sublime: From Antiquity to the Present, ed. Timothy Costelloe (Cambridge University Press, 2012). Pp. 203-216. SAOWO I WIy: O etycznym wymiarze poezji topograficznej na podstawie utworw Jamesa Thomsona i Williama Wordswortha [The Word and Attachment: On the ethical dimensions of loco-descriptive poetry in poems by James Thomson and William Wordsworth], Polish translation by Dorota Chabrajska, Ethos no. 93-94 [vol. 25:1-2] (2012): 193-215. Romantic Transformations of the King James Bible: Wordsworth, Shelley, Blake. In The King James Bible after Four Hundred Years: Literary, Linguistic, and Cultural Influences, ed. Hannibal Hamlin and Norman Jones (Cambridge University Press, 2011). Pp. 219-33. Eye and Ear: Counteracting Senses in Locodescriptive Poetry. In The Blackwell Companion to Romantic Poetry, ed. Charles Mahoney (Blackwell, 2010). Pp. 176-94. Narrative Possibilities of Happiness, Unhappiness, and Joy, in Social Research: An International Quarterly of the Political and Social Sciences, special issue on Happiness, 77:2 (Summer 2010): 523-44. *revised and augmented as Narrative Possibilities of Happiness, Joy, and Unhappiness, Nineteenth-Century Contexts 33:2 (May 2011): 111-125. *Polish translation by Dorota Chabrajska, Rado[ uzdrowienia i powrotu. O narracjnych mozliwo[ciach wyrazu szcze[liwo[ci, jej braku oraz rado[ci, Ethos no. 89-90 [vol. 24:1-2] (2011): 181-200.  Determination and Agency in Fielding s Amelia, in The Eighteenth-Century Novel vols. 6-7 (New York: AMS Press, 2009), pp. 335-58. Music vs. Conscience in Wordsworths Poetry, in Theory and Practice in the Eighteenth Century: Writing Between Philosophy and Literature, ed. Alex Dick and Christina Lupton (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2008), pp. 225-38, 279-83. Wordsworth and the Ethics of Things, PMLA 123:2 (March 2008): 390-404. *reprinted in Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism, vol. 336, ed. Laurence Trudeau (Gale Cengage, 2017), pp. 304-15. Captivation and Liberty in Wordsworths Poems on Music, in Romantic Circles Praxis Series (2008), special issue, Soundings of Things Done: The Poetry and Poetics of Sound in the Romantic Ear and Era, ed. Susan Wolfson. HYPERLINK "http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/sound.ns/potkay.html*"www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/sound.ns/potkay.html *reprinted in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, vo. 336, ed. Lawrence Trudeau (Gale Cengage, 2017), pp. 316-21. Spenser, Donne, and the Theology of Joy, SEL 46 (Winter 2006): 43-66. Happiness and Joy in the Novel, in A Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel and Culture, ed. Paula Backscheider and Catherine Ingrassia (Blackwell, 2005), pp. 321-40. Joy in American Beauty, Raritan Quarterly (Summer 2005): 69-86. Wordsworth, Henry Reed, and Bishop Doane: High-Church Romanticism on the Delaware, in Wordsworth in American Literary Culture, ed. Joel Pace and Matthew Scott (Palgrave, 2005), pp. 101-20. Coleridges Joy, The Wordsworth Circle (Summer 2004): 107-113. Samuel Johnson, in British Writers: Retrospective Supplement, ed. Jay Parini (New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 2002), pp. 137-50. "'Hume's 'Supplement to Gulliver': The Medieval Volumes of The History of England," Eighteenth-Century Life (Summer 2001): 32-46. "History, Oratory and God in Equiano's Interesting Narrative, Eighteenth-Century Studies 34 (Summer 2001): 601-14. *Reprinted in Teaching Equianos Narrative: Pedagogical Strategies and New Perspectives, ed. Eric D. Larmore (University of Tennessee, 2012), pp. 1-23. "A Response to My Critics," in Hume Studies (April 2001): 173-79. "Religious Eloquence: Hume on the Passions that Unite Us" (from Chapter 4, The Fate of Eloquence in the Age of Hume), *reprinted in Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, vol. 56 (Gale Group, 2000), pp. 201-15. "'The Structure of His Sentences is French': Johnson and Hume in the History of English," Language Sciences 22:3 (July 2000); Special Issue: Rhetoric, Language and Literature: New Perspectives on English in the Eighteenth Century, ed. Susan Fitzmaurice. Pp. 285-94. "David Hume: Moral Painter," Studies in Early Modern Philosophy 5, ed. Stanley Tweyman (Ann Arbor: Caravan Books, 2000), pp. 85-95. "Whatever Happened to Happiness?," Philosophy Now 27 (June/July 2000), pp. 24-27. "Leaving Box Hill: Austens Emma and Theatricality," on-line publication in Romantic Circles Praxis Series: Re-Reading Box Hill (Feb. 2000), ed. William Galperin. "Theorizing Civic Eloquence in the Early Republic: The Road from David Hume to John Quincy Adams," Early American Literature (Spring 1999): 147-70. "Happiness in Johnson and Hume," The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 9 (1998): 165-86. "Response to Professor Mark Box," Hume Studies 21:2 (November 1995): 340-343. "'A Satire on Myself': Wordsworth and the Infant Prodigy," Nineteenth-Century Literature (September 1994): 149-66. "Olaudah Equiano and the Art of Spiritual Autobiography," Eighteenth-Century Studies, (Summer 1994): 677-92. *Reprinted in The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano, Norton Critical Edition, ed. Werner Sollors (Norton, 2001), pp. 382-92. "Beckford's Heaven of Boys," Raritan Quarterly (Summer 1993): 73-86. *Reprinted in Three Oriental Tales: New Riverside Edition, ed. Alan Richardson (Houghton Mifflin, 2002), pp. 296-305. *Reprinted in Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism vol. 214 (Gale Cengage, 2009). "The Spirit of Ending in Johnson and Hume," Eighteenth-Century Life (November 1992): 153-66. *Reprinted in British Literature 1640-1789: A Critical Reader, ed. Robert DeMaria (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999), pp. 204-17. "Virtue and Manners in Macpherson's Poems of Ossian," PMLA (January 1992): 120-30. "Classical Eloquence and Polite Style in the Age of Hume," Eighteenth-Century Studies (Fall 1991): 31-56. "The Problem of Identity and the Grounds for Judgment in The Ring and the Book," Victorian Poetry (Summer 1987): 143-57. *Reprinted in Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism, vol. 79, ed. Suzanne Dewbury (Gale Group, 2000), pp. 116-24. "Johnson and the Terms of Succession," SEL (Summer 1986): 497-510. Encyclopedia Articles The Couplet, in The Encyclopedia of British Literature: 1660-1789, general editors Gary Day and Jack Lynch, 3 vols. (Blackwell 2015), 1:314-7. "Happiness," "Biography," and Passion, Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, editor-in-chief Alan Charles Kors, 4 vols. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003): 1:153-56, 2:181-83, 3:252-56. "Hume and Rhetorical Theory," in Eighteenth-Century British and American Rhetoric and Rhetoricians, ed. Michael Moran (Westport, Ct.: Greenwood Press, 1994), pp. 123-31. Review Essays Recent Studies in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century, omnibus review of c. 90 books, in SEL, Studies in English Literature (Summer 2008): 693- 739. Hume in America (II), Eighteenth-Century Life 31:1 (Winter 2007): 81-87. The Rhetoric of Empiricism Revisited, The Eighteenth-Century: Theory and Interpretation Vol. 45, 2004 supplement (on-line resource). Hume in America, or How Long was there a Scottish Enlightenment on the Atlantic?, a review of Humes Reception in Early America, 2 vols, ed. Mark Spencer, in 91Ƭ Quarterly (October 2003): 882-88. History After Virtue, a review of J.G.A. Pocock, Barbarism and Religion Vols. I & II, 91Ƭ Quarterly (October 2001): 997-1006. "Writing About Experience: Recent Books on Locke and Classical Empiricism," in Eighteenth-Century Life (May, 1995):103-110. Reviews Dozens of single book reviews published in Modern Philology, Modern Language Quarterly, SEL (Studies in English Literature), The Wordsworth Circle, Romantic Circles Reviews (online), Studies in Romanticism, The Age of Johnson, The Johnsonian Newsletter, Hume Studies, Early American Literature, The Scriblerian, Eighteenth-Century Life, Rhetorica, Journal of British Studies, BARS Review (British Association for the Study of Romanticism) and elsewhere. Editorial Positions on Scholarly Journals Eighteenth-Century Life: Advisory Editor, 1990-Spring 1995; Fall 1996-2001 Interim Editor, Fall 1995- Summer 1996 Associate Editor, 2001-04 Editorial Board member, 2006- *Book Review Editor, 2007-2016 Editorial Board, The Johnsonian Newsletter, 2024- Editorial Board, Ethos (Poland), 2014- Editorial Board, PMLA, 2008- 2010 Advisory Editor, Eighteenth-Century Studies, 1999-2002 Editorial Board, British Ideas and Issues 1660-1820, pamphlet reprint series (New York: AMS Press), early 1990s Editorial Board, The Friend: Comment on Romanticism, 1991-1995 Referee for many other journals, including PMLA, SEL, Studies in Romanticism, European Romantic Review, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 91Ƭ Quarterly, Modern Philology, Modern Language Quarterly, Hume Studies, Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, Rhetorica, Political Theory, European Journal of Political Theory, Review of Politics, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Journal of the History of Philosophy. Editorial Service to University Presses including Bucknell, Cambridge, Columbia, Cornell, Edinburgh, Harvard, Kentucky, Liverpool, Ohio State, Oxford, Princeton, Stanford, Virginia, Yale; commercial academic presses including W. W. Norton & Co., Routledge (UK), and Versita (Poland). In popular media: Why Were Obsessed with Happiness, CNN.com, April 16, 2015. Invited Scholarly Papers and Talks Concordia Discors: Pope, Voltaire, Wordsworth, University of St. Andrews, UK, April 3, 2025.  Wonder, Intuition, Romanticism: WojtyBa, Scheler, Wordsworth, keynote lecture for John Paul II memorial conference, KUL (Catholic University of Lublin, Poland), April 1, 2025  Freedom and Determinism, The Karol WojtyBa Memorial Lectures (10 lectures, 25 hours), KUL (Catholic University of Lublin, Poland), March 24-29, 2025.  Hume and the Stoics on Suicide, APA (American Philosophical Association) Eastern Division Meeting, Special session, New York City, January 10, 2025. How Like he was to Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Johnson on Social Evils and Future Happiness, invited talk at The Johnsonians annual dinner, The Yale Club, New York City, September 13, 2024. Concordia Discors at Worlds End, invited talk at Dept of English, Haifa University, Israel, June 25, 2024 (zoom session). Joy, Happiness, Cheerfulness, invited talk at inter-disciplinary conference on Joy, director Joanna Cook (Anthropology), University College London, June 5, 2024 (zoom participation due to my schedule). Galperins Wordsworth, invited talk at MLA, Philadelphia, January 2024, special session, William Galperins Romanticism. Frankenstein in the History of Happiness: From Ancient Ethics to Richard Wright, invited talk at Department of English, Princeton University, March, 2019; also given as the keynote lecture at Kings College, Cambridge University, Happiness from the Enlightenment to the Present Conference, October 2019. Rhetoric and Philosophy II, invited plenary lecture at Persuasion After Rhetoric Conference, University of Notre Dame, March 2019. Wordsworth: Hope over Experience, invited plenary lecture, Wordsworth Summer Conference, Grasmere, UK, August 2018. Rhetoric and Philosophy from Cicero to Adam Smith: Tropes, Dialogue, Self-Division, Keynote lecture at The Registers of Philosophy III conference, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy, Budapest, May 2017. Something Evermore about to Be: The Transformation of Hope in the Nineteenth Century, talk delivered in succession at Washington University, Saint Louis; The Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University, Texas; and The Centre for the History of Emotions, University of Melbourne, Australia, October-November 2106. Wordsworth and Virgil, invited talk, Symposium on the Romantics and Classics, Virginia Wesleyan University, November 2016. How to Publish in PMLA, invited talk, MLA, Austin, Texas, January 2016. Pity, Gratitude, and the Poor in Rousseau and Adam Smith, Eighteenth/Nineteenth Century Reading Group, Rutgers University, October 2015. Roundtable discussion of The Story of Joy from the Bible to Late Romanticism, Eastern Virginia Presbyterian Minister Study Group, May 14, 2015, Williamsburg, Virginia. Pity and Gratitude in Philosophy and Literature, Tack Endowed Lectures Series of the College of 91Ƭ, Kimball Theater, Williamsburg, October 28, 2014; Revised version given as invited lecture in the English Department, The University of Virginia, February 19, 2015. Contested Emotions: The Stoic Philosophy of Pity and Gratitude from Swift to Wordsworth, Keynote lecture for Queen Anne to Queen Victoria Conference on British Literature, University of Warsaw, Poland, September 2013. Wordsworths Ethical Thinking, English Department, Virginia Commonwealth University, November 2012; plenary lecture for the Wordsworth Summer Conference, Grasmere, England, August 2013. Imagining Harmony: Loss, Literature, and Human Flourishing, public lecture, Monmouth University (NJ), March 2013, and symposium lecture, The Positive Psychology Center, University of Pennsylvania, March 2013. Hume, Smith, and the Dialogues of Antiquity, Humanities Center, University of Toronto, May 2012. What is Happiness? Kean University/Ocean County Campus, March 2012. Rhetoric as Philosophy: Humes Four Philosophers, Plenary lecture, International David Hume Society Annual Conference, Edinburgh University, July 2011. The Romantic Poets and the King James Bible, Plenary lecture, Conference on The King James Bible at 400, Columbus, Ohio, May 2011. A Very Short History of Joy, Lecture and Seminar, The Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, April 2011. Folk Culture, the Ballad Tradition, and Robert Burns. Invited Talk (and Toast), The St. Andrews Society of Eastern Virginia/Burns Night Supper, January 2011. The Moral Sublime, Inaugural Lecture in the Hanauer Endowment Series, Humanities Center, University of Washington, Seattle, November 2010. Rethinking the Romantic Sublime, delivered at the University of Aberdeen and at St. Andrews University, UK, March 2010; at Harvard University (Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Reading Group), April 2010. The Transformation of the Ancient Schools in 18th-century Philosophical Prose: Humes Four Philosophers in Context, University of Bristol, UK, June 2009; IASH at Edinburgh University, March 2010. Narratives of Happiness, Unhappiness, and Joy, Plenary Lecture, INCS (Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference), Saratoga Springs, NY, April, 2009. Attending to Music in Loco-Descriptive Verse, Distinguished Alumni Lecture, Rutgers University, November 2008. Music vs. Conscience in Wordsworths Poetry, versions given at Princeton University (October 2007) and University of Michigan (March 2008). Transformations in Eighteenth-Century Studies: The Case of Austen, University of Pennsylvania (symposium in honor of John Richetti), September 2007. Liberty and Necessity in Fieldings Amelia, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia, May 2007. The History of Joy: An Overview, Glasgow University, April 2005. Coleridge and the Troubadours, George Whalley Memorial Lecture in Romanticism, Queens University, Ontario, October 2004 Invited participant in Literary Celebrity in the Short Eighteenth-Century, ASECS April 2005. Joy and Justice in Joseph Andrews, versions given at Columbia University (October 2001), University of Maryland (January 2002), Texas A&M (March 2005). Invited participant in "Teaching Eighteenth-Century America," Society of Early Americanists, Annual Conference, Norfolk, VA, March 2001. "Happiness, Pleasure, and Joy in the Age of Johnson," Philosophy Dept. of Evansville University/Johnson Society of Evansville, March 2001. "History, Oratory and God in Equiano's Interesting Narrative," American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Annual Conference, Special Session, Philadelphia, PA, April 2000. "Hume, John Quincy Adams, and the Theory of Eloquence in America," Hume and Eighteenth-Century America Conference, Williamsburg, April 1995. "Olaudah Equiano and the Art of Black Autobiography," Rutgers University, March 4, 1993. Contributed Scholarly Papers and round-table participation at regional and national meetings of the MLA, the American and British Societies for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS); Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society; the International Hume Society; and the North-American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR). Some papers and presentations from past ten years: Participant in round-table on Samuel Johnson: Past, Present and Future panel, EC-ASECS, Lancaster PA, November 1, 2024; Respondent in two 2 panels devoted to my Hope: A History book (at EC-ASECS, 91Ƭ, October 13, 2023, and at NASSR, Sam Huston University, Huntsville TX, April 1, 2023); Earl Wasserman and Concordia Discors (ASECS, St. Louis, March 2023); On Hope: Cowley and Crashaw (digital ASECS, April 2021); Lucretius, Englishman (ASECS, Orlando, March 2018); Pity and Gratitude in Rousseau and Adam Smith (ASECS, International Rousseau Association panel, Los Angeles, March 2015); Wordsworth among the Philosophers: Stoics, Godwin, Kant (NASSR, Bethesda, July 2014); Pity and Gratitude in Swift and Wordsworth (ASECS, Williamsburg, March 2014). Conference Sessions Chaired Rhetoric Revisited II, digital ASECS, April 2021. Romantic Ethics, NASSR, Bethesda MD, July 2014. Christianity and Secularism, ASECS, San Antonio, March 2012. The Classical Tradition in the Eighteenth Century, ASECS, Richmond, VA, March 2009. Henry Fielding: The Comic Novel in Context, ASECS, Atlanta, March 2007. Rhetoric Revisited, ASECS, Las Vegas, March 2005. "Scottish Writings on the Passions," ASECS, New Orleans, April 2001. "Scenes from the Black Atlantic, 1770-1870," Monuments of the Black Atlantic: History, Memory and Politics, Williamsburg, VA, May 2000. "Class Constructions," Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Williamsburg, VA, April 1994. The Psychology of Scapegoating," Northeast Modern Language Association, Providence, March 1987. Courses Taught Undergraduate courses: British Literature, 1660-1744 British Literature, 1744-1798 Enlightenment and Sensibility Romanticism and Revolution The English Novel to 1832 The World Novel after 1832 Central European Modernism: Kafka to Kundera Fantastic Modernism: Apuleius to Guillermo Del Toro Satire and the Novel (University of Aberdeen) Brit. Lit. Survey I, Chaucer to Milton Brit. Lit. Survey II, 18th and 19th centuries Citizenship and Community (W & M College Honors Program in Education-Based Community Service) The Bible and Western Literature The Problem of Evil World Masterpieces: Gilgamesh to King Lear Interpreting Literature Hope: A History (Center for Human Values, Princeton University, Spring 2019) Senior and Honors Seminars: The Art of Dying (Phaedo to Beyond the Pleasure Principle) Writing about Literature Ancient Philosophy and Modern Poetry Theodicy and the Poetic Imagination Happiness and Joy: Literature and Ethics from the Troubadours to Yeats (W&M, Columbia University) The Celebrity Artist: Byron to Warhol Wordsworth and Coleridge Wordsworth and the Ethics of Poetry Henry Fielding: The Comic Novel in Context The Sublime: From Antiquity to the Present Graduate seminars: Romantic Poetry in Context Topics in Eighteenth-Century Literature: Dialogues concerning Religion Samuel Johnson and David Hume M.A. Theses Directed (with Dates Completed): Fall 1994: Dominic Taylor on Hume's aesthetics Spring 1995: Paul Brown on Blake and the Enlightenment Summer 1996: Sarah Thumm on Jonathan Swift and Epicureanism Summer 1996: Grace Moore on Paine and Blake Spring 2002 (Columbia University): Scott Korb on Defoe *Recent Undergraduate Independent Study of Note: English Meter with Augustin Kalytiak-Davis, Fall 2022; resulted in his published article, Prosodic Inheritance and Innovation in Lyrical Ballads, The Wordsworth Circle 55:2 (2024): 231-56. Service on Ph.D. dissertation committees: Spring 1996: Ph.D. examining committee (Phyllis Hunter), American Studies, 91Ƭ Fall 1998: Ph.D. examining committee (Stephen Ahearn), English, McGill University Fall 2001: Ph.D. examining committee (Amanpal Garcha), English, Columbia University Spring 2003: Ph.D. committee (Scott Campbell), English, Rutgers University Spring 2005: Ph.D. committee (Sandra Burr), English, 91Ƭ 2004-06: Ph.D. committee (Brian Michael Norton), Comparative Literature, New York University 2007: Ph.D. examining committee (Richard Squibbs), English, Rutgers University Spring 2022: Ph.D. examining committee (Alexander Hobday), Cambridge University; dissertation title: Alienation and Dwelling: The Pursuit of Happiness in Eighteenth-Century Autobiographical Literature 2019-2022: Ph.D. committee, co-director (Jessica Terekhov), English, Princeton University (defended 5/2022); dissertation title: On Wit in Relation to Self-Division (Shaftesbury, Meredith, T. S. Eliot) Professional Service Departmental and College Committee Service Chair, English Department, 7/2013- 6/2016 English Dept. 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For the American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies: Service on the Clifford Prize Committee (selects best article of year in 18th-century studies), 1998 Nominating Committee, 2002 Organizing Committee for March 2009 Annual Convention, Richmond, VA Chair, Organizing Committee for March 2014 Convention, Williamsburg, VA Gottschalk Prize Committee (selects best book of year), 2019-2020; Chair, Gottschalk Prize Committee, 2020-2021 For the International David Hume Society: Co-organizer of the 27th Annual Conference, July 24-29, 2000, Williamsburg, VA For the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society: Co-organizer of the 20th Annual Conference, April 27-30, 2006, Williamsburg, VA For the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism: Organizing Committee for July 2014 Annual Conference, Washington DC For the Princeton University Center for Human Values: Organizer of the Hope colloquium (April 5-6, 2019), 14 invited participants/pre-circulated papers drawn from Princeton, US, UK, and Eastern Europe, representing disciplines of philosophy, political theory, political science, literature, and religion. 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