Pat Rogers

Pat Rogers
Eminent Scholar & DeBartolo Chair of the Humanities
On Sabbatical 2009-2010

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Bio

I’ve held fulltime teaching posts at the universities of Cambridge, London and Wales. Before coming to USF in 1986 I was Professor of English at the University of Bristol for almost ten years, and chair for four years. At various times (some now remote) I’ve been a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and a visiting fellow at Christ Church, Oxford, and the University of Otago.

As for teaching, I’ve always ranged pretty widely, with courses from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries (haven’t quite tiptoed into the twenty-first yet). Subjects include Shakespeare’s comedies; Restoration satire; Wordsworth; Victorian novelists, esp. Dickens, Eliot, Gaskell, Hardy; European novel in the C19th; C20th British literature, including Auden, Greene, Waugh; postwar British women novelists.
I have also taught classes on the arts and sciences in the American revolutionary age.

As for research, most of my work has been on the long eighteenth century, where I’m interested in pretty much everything – literature, politics, society, economics, music, architecture, science, medicine and more.
Among major specialties: the history of the book and descriptive bibliography, recently centering on the rogue publisher Edmund Curll; the work of Alexander Pope, where I’ve written or edited eleven books; Samuel Johnson and his circle (five books and editions); Daniel Defoe (six). I’ve 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.

I’d be glad to work with any student whose interests fall within some aspect of eighteenth century studies.

Membership includes: ASECS; BSECS (formerly President and Secretary); Johnson Society (formerly President)

Other interests: music, esp. Mozart, Haydn, Ravel, Brahms.

Education

M.A., Ph.D., Litt.D, Cambridge University; D. Litt., University of Bristol

Specialty Area

18th century literature, history, architecture, music

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