Professor, Penn State University
 

Education: D.Phil. Oxford University, M.A. University of California, Berkeley, A.B. Princeton University

Research Interests:
British literature of the Romantic and Victorian periods; Thomas Love Peacock and the Shelley circle; intertextuality and plagiarism; comic and satiric fiction; letters and literary manuscripts; textual editing.

I am currently working on a biography of Thomas Love Peacock and also investigating the early life of George Meredith, especially his failed marriage to Peacock's daughter Mary Ellen.

Major Publications:
The Letters of Thomas Love Peacock , 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001)
Alexander Pope: A Critical Anthology , co-edited with F. W. Bateson (Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1971)

Other Publications:
Some twenty-five articles, about half on Peacock and the rest on other nineteenth-century writers such as Wordsworth, Southey, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Leigh Hunt, Thackeray, and Meredith. Contributions to The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and the third edition of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature .

Awards:
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship
Two NEH editing grants for The Letters of Thomas Love Peacock

(Editor's note.  The above was extracted from the Penn State University Website)