EDUCATION
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B.A., University of Pennsylvania (Summa Cum Laude in English) |
1968 |
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B.A., Cambridge University (Honours in English) |
1970 |
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Ph.D., Princeton University |
1974 |
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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Senior Research Fellow, St. John’s College, Oxford |
2013- |
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Senior Research Fellow, Institute for English Studies, School For Advanced Study, University of London |
2013- |
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Visiting Scholar, American Academy in Rome |
2014 |
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Hurst Visiting Professor, Washington University |
2013 |
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Oxford University, Drue Heinz Professor of American Literature |
1997-2013 |
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Emeritus |
2013 |
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Harvard University, Visiting Scholar in the History of American Civilization |
2004 |
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Visiting Fellow, Exeter College, Oxford |
1994-5 |
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California Institute of Technology, Associate Professor and Professor |
1982-97 |
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Harvard University, Assistant and Associate Professor |
1974-82 |
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
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Clark Fund (Harvard University) Stipend |
1975-76; 1981-82 |
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National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships |
1977-78, 1992-3 |
APPOINTMENTS AND COMMITTEES (SELECTED)
Advisory Board, Cambridge University Press Studies in American Literature and Culture
Advisory Editor, MODERNISM / modernity
Advisory Editor, Literary Imagination (2000-2003)
Editorial Board, Paideuma
Editorial Board, Rivista di Letterature d'America
Editorial Board, Historicizing Modernism Series, Continuum Press
International Evaluation Committee, Program in American Literature, University of Rome 3
Referee, Italian Evaluation of Research Quality Exercise
Oxford: English Faculty Board and Board of Graduate Studies, Chair of the M. St. Examinations Board, Rothermere Institute Executive Committee,
MLA Executive Committee, Division of 20th-century English Literature, 1983-88
Convener, Literature Group (Equivalent of Chair), Caltech, 1988-90
Chair, Search Committee (Literature), Caltech, 1988, 1990, 1992
Chair, Mellon Post-doc Search Committee, Caltech, 1986, 1989, 1991
Selection Panel, Newcombe Fellowships, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, 1981-83
Consulting Editor, UMI Research Press New Books in Modern Literature (1982-89).
Referee, Yale, Princeton, Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford, Blackwells, California, Chicago,
Johns Hopkins, SUNY, Rutgers, Penn State, Louisiana State, Pennsylvania, Duke, Texas, Michigan, Virginia University Presses
Faculty Council, Harvard University, 1974-76
Graduate Admissions Committee, Dept. of English, Harvard University, 1979-82
Freshman Admissions Committee, Caltech, 1984-1993