Jack Lynch

English Department, 516 Hill Hall 360 Martin Luther King Blvd. Newark, N.J. 07102	11 Lumar Rd. Lawrenceville, N.J. 08648
(973) 353-5279 x 516	(609) 882-4642

jlynch@andromeda.rutgers.edu

Education

1993-98:

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Ph.D. in English.

1985-1989:

University of Pennsylvania. B.A. in English, distinction in the major.

Academic Appointments

1998-

Assistant Professor, Department of English, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey.

Dissertation

Publications

Edited Book:

• A Bibliography of Johnsonian Studies, 1986-1998 (New York: AMS Press, 1999) (forthcoming). An abridged version appears in The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 10 (1999): 405-519.

Articles in Refereed Journals:

• "Betwixt Two Ages Cast: Milton, Johnson, and the English Renaissance," Journal of the History of Ideas (forthcoming).
• "The Ground-Work of Style: Johnson on the History of the Language," Studies in Philology (forthcoming).
• "The Relicks of Learning: Sterne among the Renaissance Encyclopedists," Eighteenth-Century Fiction (forthcoming).
• "Preventing Play: Annotating the Battle of the Books," Texas Studies in Literature & Language 40, no. 3 (Fall 1998): 370-88.
• "The Hangman's Waiting for You: Reading the Knock in Sweeney Agonistes," Yeats Eliot Review 15, no. 4 (Fall 1998): 27-36.
• "Political Ideology in Homeric Translations, 1660-1715," Translation and Literature 7, no. 1 (April 1998): 23-41.
• "Studied Barbarity: Johnson, Spenser, and the Idea of Progress," The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 9 (1998): 88-108.
• "'Observation, with Extensive View'? English-Italian Travel Narratives, 1700-1820," The Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies 4 (1995): 11-28.

Note:

• "Johnson, Politian, and Editorial Method," Notes & Queries 45, no. 1 (March 1998): 70-72.

Reviews:

• Richard C. Frushell, Edmund Spenser in the Early Eighteenth Century: Education, Imitation, and the Making of a Literary Model, for The Scriblerian (forthcoming).
• Jonathan Brody Kramnick, Making the English Canon, and Clifford Siskin, The Work of Writing, for Romanticism on the Net (forthcoming).
• Daniel Szechi, The Jacobites: Britain and Europe 1688-1788; and Murray Pittock, Jacobitism, for Eighteenth-Century Scotland 13 (Spring 1999): 26-27.
• Blanford Parker, The Triumph of Augustan Poetics: English Literary Culture from Butler to Johnson, for 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (forthcoming).
• Robert J. Griffin, Wordsworth's Pope: A Study in Literary Historiography, for 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, 5 (1999) (forthcoming).
• "Johnson Once More" (review of Greg Clingham, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson), in Essays in Criticism 49, no. 1 (Jan. 1999): 75-81.
• "Sentimentality Revisited" (reviews of Markman Ellis, The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender, and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel; Claudia L. Johnson, Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender, and Sentimentality in the 1790s; and Barbara Benedict, Framing Feeling: Sentiment and Style in English Prose Fiction, 1745-1800), in Novel: A Forum on Fiction 31, no. 1 (Fall 1997): 134-37.
• Anne McDermott, ed., Samuel Johnson's "Dictionary" on CD-ROM, in The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 9 (1998): 352-57.

Capsule Reviews:

• Kevin Hart, Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property, for Choice (forthcoming).
• Allen Michie, Richardson and Fielding: The Dynamics of a Critical Rivalry, for Choice (forthcoming).
• Tiffany Potter, Honest Sins: Georgian Libertinism and the Plays and Novels of Henry Fielding, for Choice (forthcoming).
• Nick Groom, ed., Thomas Chatterton and Romantic Culture, for Choice (forthcoming).
• Neil Postman, Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future, for Choice (forthcoming).
• Andrew Varney, Eighteenth-Century Writers in Their World: A Mighty Maze, for Choice (forthcoming).
• David F. Venturo, Johnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel Johnson, for Choice (forthcoming).
• The Gothic: Materials for Study, in Choice 37, no. 4 (Dec. 1999): 2015.
• Victoria Glendinning, Jonathan Swift: A Portrait, in Choice 37, no. 2 (Oct. 1999): 775.
• Sublime Anxiety: The Gothic Family and the Outsider, in Choice 37, no. 2 (Oct. 1999): 794.
• Andrew McCann, Cultural Politics in the 1790s: Literature, Radicalism and the Public Sphere, in Choice 36, no. 10 (June 1999): 1787.
• Betty T. Bennett, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: An Introductrion, in Choice 36, no. 9 (May 1999): 4922.
• Lawrence Lipking, Samuel Johnson: The Life of a Writer, in Choice 36, no. 7 (March 1999): 3787.
• Martin Wechselblatt, Bad Behavior: Samuel Johnson and Modern Cultural Authority, in Choice 36, no. 6 (Feb. 1999): 1067.
• Kathleen Nulton Kemmerer, "A Neutral Being between the Sexes": Samuel Johnson's Sexual Politics, in Choice 36, no. 6 (Feb. 1999): 1065.
• Kevin Sharpe and Steven N. Zwicker, eds., Refiguring Revolutions: Aesthetics and Politics from the English Revolution to the Romantic Revolution, in Choice 36, no. 5 (Jan. 1999): 2635.
• Sarah Fielding, The Adventures of David Simple, ed. Peter Sabor, in Choice 36, no. 3 (Nov. 1998): 1437.
• Deidre Shauna Lynch, The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning, in Choice 36, no. 1 (Sept. 1998): 180.
• Greg Clingham, The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, in Choice 35, no. 11-12 (July-Aug. 1998): 6080.
• Robert A. Erickson, The Language of the Heart, 1600-1750, in Choice 35, no. 4 (Dec. 1997): 1972.
• Robert DeMaria, Jr., Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading, in Choice 35, no. 3 (Nov. 1997): 1365.
• Robert D. Spector, Samuel Johnson and the Essay, in Choice 35, no. 2 (Oct. 1997): 795.
• Betty A. Schellenberg, The Conversational Circle: Re-reading the English Novel, 1740-1775, in Choice 35, no. 2 (Oct. 1997): 793.
• Charles Robinson, ed., The "Frankenstein" Notebooks: A Facsimile Edition, in Choice 34 (March 1997): 3762.
• Anne McDermott, ed., Samuel Johnson's "Dictionary" on CD-ROM, in Choice 34 (March 1997): 3705.
• Nora Crook, ed., The Novels and Selected Works of Mary Shelley, 8 vols., in Choice 34 (Jan. 1997): 2643.
• Nancy A. Mace, Henry Fielding's Novels and the Classical Tradition, in Choice 34 (Nov. 1996): 1399.
• Robert Mahony, Jonathan Swift: The Irish Identity, in Choice 33 (May 1996): 4973.
• Laura Quinney, Literary Power and the Criteria of Truth, in Choice 33 (Jan. 1996): 2570.
• Jill Campbell, Natural Masques: Gender and Identity in Fielding's Plays and Novels, in Choice 33 (Oct. 1995): 762.
• John Cannon, Samuel Johnson and the Politics of Hanoverian England, in Choice 33 (Sept. 1995): 123.
• Judith Moore, The Appearance of Truth: The Story of Elizabeth Canning and Eighteenth-Century Narrative, in Choice 32 (April 1995): 4359.
• A. D. Horgan, Johnson on Language: An Introduction, in Choice 32 (April 1995): 4345.
• Jeanne Moskal, Blake, Ethics, and Forgiveness, in Choice 32 (Dec. 1994): 1991.
• Claudia N. Thomas, Alexander Pope and His Eighteenth-Century Women Readers, in Choice 32 (Sept. 1994): 168.
• Charles H. Hinnant, "Steel for the Mind": Samuel Johnson and Critical Discourse, in Choice 31 (June 1994): 5300.
• Harry Solomon, The Rape of the Text, in Choice 31 (March 1994): 3162.
• M. L. Rosenthal, Running to Paradise: Yeats's Poetic Art, in Library Journal 118, no. 16 (1 Oct. 1993): 95.
• William Safire, Quoth the Maven, in Library Journal 1 (Aug. 1993).

Miscellaneous Publications and Editorial Work:

• Joint Editor (with Paul J. Korshin), The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, beginning with vol. 11 (1999).
• General Editor, c18 Bibliographies On-Line.
• Editor, Major Authors Online: Samuel Johnson and James Boswell (Woodbridge, Conn.: Primary Source Media, 1999).
• Assistant Editor, Frankenstein: The Pennsylvania Electronic Edition, ed. Stuart Curran (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2000).
• "Concise, Precise: Words to Live By," The Editorial Eye 22, no. 11 (Nov. 1999), 1-3.
• "Electronic Dictionaries and Encyclopedias," entry in The Encyclopedia of Computer Science, ed. David Hemmendinger, Anthony Ralston, and Edwin Reilly, 4th ed. (Macmillan, 1999) (forthcoming).
• "Computing in Penn's English Department," Penn English: The Newsletter of the University of Pennsylvania English Department 1 (1996): 1.
• "Editing in the Information Age: or, Is There a Text on This Disk?" GSC Newsletter: Graduate Student Caucus of the MLA, Autumn 1995, 6-8.
• Comprehensive index to the works and MSS of the Brontës for Major Authors on CD-ROM: The Brontës (Woodbridge, Conn: Primary Source Media, 1998).
• Comprehensive index to the works and MSS of Whitman for Major Authors on CD-ROM: Walt Whitman (Woodbridge, Conn: Primary Source Media, 1997).
• Comprehensive index nominum for the complete works of Johnson and Boswell for Major Authors on CD-ROM: Samuel Johnson and James Boswell (Woodbridge, Conn: Primary Source Media, 1996).

Presentations

• "Betwixt Two Ages Cast; or, Just How Long Is the Long Eighteenth Century?" ASECS, Philadelphia, April 2000 (forthcoming).
• "Improving Opinion into Knowledge: Literary Criticism in the Eighteenth Century" (panel chair), ASECS, Philadelphia, April 2000 (forthcoming).
• "The Search for Respectability: Cutting-Edge Anxieties in a Digital Age," MLA, Chicago, December 1999 (forthcoming).
• "Horry, the Ruffian, and the Whelp: Three Fakers of the 1760s," Columbia Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Europe, New York City, 20 May 1999 (by invitation).
• "England's Golden Age: The Eighteenth Century's Age of Elizabeth," NYU Eighteenth-Century Seminar, New York City, 8 April 1999 (by invitation).
• "The Love of Truth: Johnson and Literary Fraud," ASECS, Milwaukee, 25 April 1999.
• "Slow Rises Worth: Johnson and Poverty" (panel chair), ASECS, Milwaukee, 25 April 1999.
• "Splendide Mendax: Fakes and Fakers in the Age of Johnson," The Eighteenth-Century Semester, Providence College, 16 March 1999. By invitation.
• "Orientalism as Performance Art: The Strange Case of George Psalmanazar," CUNY Eighteenth-Century Seminar, New York City, 29 Jan. 1999 (by invitation).
• "Bestowing Animation upon Lifeless Matter: The Pennsylvania Electronic Frankenstein," NYU/NEACH Talks on Humanities Computing Series, New York City, 8 May 1998 (by invitation).
• "The Web of Disorderly Erudition: Electrifying the Eighteenth-Century Classroom," ASECS, Notre Dame, 3 April 1998.
• "The Internet, Electronic Resources, and Electronic Publishing in Eighteenth-Century Studies" (panel chair), ASECS, Notre Dame, 1-5 April 1998.
• "Getting New Tricks out of Old Dogs: Approaches to Teaching the Eighteenth Century" (panel chair and moderator), NEASECS, Boston, 12 December 1997.
• "Johnson and the Revival of Learning," EC/ASECS, Ursinus College, 25 October 1997.
• "False Refinement and Declension: Johnson on the History of the Language," the Inaugural Conference of the Johnson Centre, Birmingham and Lichfield, U.K., 12 September 1997.
• "Hideous Progeny, Version 0.4 Beta," MLA, Washington, D.C., 28 December 1996.
• "Workshop of Filthy Creation, Cyberspace Division," NASSR, Boston, 15 November 1996.
• "The Ground-Work of Style: Use, Elegance, and National Identity in Johnson's Dictionary," NEASECS, Worcester, Mass., 29 September 1996.
• "Brave New Worlds: A Brief History of Twenty-First-Century Literature," address to the Cum Laude Society assembly at Chestnut Hill Academy, Philadelphia, 11 April 1996 (by invitation).
• "Authorizing Ossian," MWASECS, Minneapolis, 5 October 1995.
• "History and the Novel" (panel chair), MWASECS, Minneapolis, 5 October 1995.
• "Studied Barbarity: Johnson, Spenser, and Literary Progress," ASECS, Tucson, 8 April 1995.
• "The Pre-History of the Post-Book," University of Pennsylvania History of the Book Seminar, 27 February 1995 (by invitation).
• "An Introduction to Hypertext," Kings Court-English House Lecture Series, University of Pennsylvania, 5 December 1994 (by invitation).
• "Babel and Empire in Paradise Lost," at "Contextualizing the Renaissance," Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, Binghamton University, 22 October 1994.
• "Preventing Play: Annotating the Battle of the Books," EC/ASECS, Penn State University, 13 October 1994.

Teaching Experience

Autumn 1999:

The Art of Satire; Computers and Literature.

Spring 1999:

English Literature 1745-1800 at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Autumn 1998:

Composition I and English Literature, 1660-1745.

Autumn 1996:

Instructor, "Cybertheory." Upper-level seminar on contemporary literary and cultural theory and modern technologies.

Spring 1996:

Instructor, "Writing the Essay." Intermediate-level workshop on the familiar essay.

Autumn 1995:

Teaching Fellow, "Writing About Literature and Society: The Age of Reason?" Freshman writing seminar on the irrational and scandalous in eighteenth-century British literature.

Spring 1995:

Teaching Fellow, "Writing About Narrative: From Epic to Hypertext." Freshman writing seminar and survey on narrative genres, excluding the novel.

Autumn 1994:

Teaching Fellow, "Writing About Literature and Society: Women, Sex, and Violence in Medieval Culture." Freshman writing seminar on the medieval treatment of gender.

Spring 1994:

Teaching Apprentice, "History of the British Novel."

Autumn 1993:

Teaching Apprentice, "Twentieth-Century British Literature."

Honors, Awards, Fellowships

1999:

Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania, for the best dissertation submitted in 1998.

1997-1998:

Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania.

1996-1997:

University Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania.

1989:

Distinction in the English major, University of Pennsylvania.

Professional Service

1998-:

Advisory Board, Issues in Humanities Computing, ed. Joseph Raben.

1998-:

Editorial Board, c18.

1997:

Assistant organizer for "Jacobitism and Eighteenth-Century English Literature: A Scholarly Conference," 1-3 May 1997, University of Pennsylvania.

1997:

Co-founder, ASECS Caucus for Electronic Resources, April 1997.

1996-1999:

Conference Section editor, Romantic Circles: Byron, The Shelleys, Keats, and Their Contemporaries, ed. Neil Fraistat, Don Reiman, and Steven E. Jones.

1995-1998:

Editor, Calls for Papers mailing list (CFP@english.upenn.edu).

1994-98:

Member, Electronic Texts and Computing Committee, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania.

1993-1998:

Editorial assistant, copyeditor, and compositor, The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, ed. Paul J. Korshin (New York: AMS Press).

Other Employment

1994-98:

University of Pennsylvania. Assistant to the Undergraduate Chair for Computing and Electronic Advising.

1987-1989:

Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania. Reference Information Assistant. Trained library patrons in the use of on-line bibliographic tools.

1985-98:

CIGNA Corporation, Philadelphia. 1993-1998: part-time Systems Specialist and Technical Writer. 1989-1993: Senior Systems Specialist and Technical Writer. Responsibilities include programming in C++, Pascal, Awk, and Perl; editing, copyediting, and desktop publishing.