Professor Pat Rogers, School Visiting Professorial Fellow (January to June 2010)
Professor Pat Rogers of the Department of English, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, has been awarded the Visiting Professorial Fellowship for 2009/10 in the School of Advanced Study. Professor Rogers will be here between January and June 2010 and his ‘home’ Institute will be English Studies.
Professor Rogers is Distinguished University Professor and holder of the DeBartolo Chair in the Liberal Arts. He has held full-time teaching posts at the universities of Cambridge, London and Wales. Before coming to USF in 1986, he was Professor of English at the University of Bristol for almost ten years, and chair for four years. He has also been a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and a visiting fellow at Christ Church, Oxford, and the University of Otago. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Corresponding Fellow of the English Association, and Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.
He has taught courses from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries on subjects including: Shakespeare’s comedies; Restoration satire; Wordsworth; Victorian novelists, especially Dickens, Eliot, Gaskell, Hardy; European novel in the C19th; C20th British literature, including Auden, Greene, Waugh; post-war British women novelists. He has also taught classes on the arts and sciences in the American revolutionary age.
Most of his research has been on the long eighteenth century, including literature, politics, society, economics, music, architecture, science, medicine and more. Among major specialties are the history of the book and descriptive bibliography, recently centring on the rogue publisher Edmund Curll; the work of Alexander Pope, on whom he has written or edited eleven books; Samuel Johnson and his circle (five books and editions); Daniel Defoe (six). He has also written a good deal on Jane Austen and prepared the first full scholarly edition of Pride and Prejudice for the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen in 2006.
His research here in the School will be on Alexander Pope, Edmund Curll and the London book trade, 1700-1750.
Professor Rogers will be giving a lecture in the Dean's Seminar series on Wednesday, 9 June in room G37 (ground floor, south block, Senate House) from 12:30 to 14:00. The title is to be confirmed. He will also be giving the School Visiting Professorial Lecture at 17:30 on Wednesday, 21 April with the title "Checkered Careers: From Samuel Johnson and Edgar Allan Poe to the Bronx Comet and a Computer named Chinook". The lecture will take place in the Chancellor's Hall, Senate House (first floor) and will be followed by a reception.
