LISA
BERGLUND
Department of English
Buffalo State College
Buffalo, NY 14222
berglul@bscmail.buffalostate.edu
Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1995
Dissertation: Learning to Read The Rambler; Director: Martin C. Battestin
M.A., University of Virginia, 1985
Thesis: “‘Dominion Large Beyond this Deep’” (on Paradise Lost)
B.A.
(with High Honors), Swarthmore College, 1983; Phi Beta Kappa
EMPLOYMENT
HISTORY
State University of New
York—Buffalo State College: Assistant Professor, 2001-present
Connecticut College: Assistant Professor, 1995-2001;
Instructor, 1992-95
University of Virginia:
Instructor, 1991-92; Academic Director for Reading and Composition Curriculum,
Summer Transition Program, 1990-92; Graduate Instructor and
Teaching Assistant, 1985-91
HONORS,
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
Winner of the
1999 American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Teaching Competition, for
“Samuel Johnson and the Eighteenth-Century Reader”
Connecticut College
Provost’s Council choice, the John King Award for Outstanding Teaching, 1999
University of Virginia Outstanding Graduate Teaching
Award, 1991
Edgar Allan Poe Grant, 1988
Mason Fellowship, 1987
Elizabeth Garrett Fellowship, 1985, 1986
Davidge Fellowship, 1985
PUBLICATIONS—Books
[forthcoming]
Explaining the Generic Detective: Reviews of Detective Fiction, 1984-2004. Essays and reviews, most of which first
appeared in The Drood Review of Mystery. The Crum Creek Press, 2004
PUBLICATIONS—Articles
“‘Look, my Lord, it comes’: The Approach of Death in the Life of Johnson,” 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era
7 (2002), 239-255
“Allegory in The Rambler,” Papers in Language and Literature 37:2 (2001), 147-178
“Writing to
Mr. Rambler: Samuel Johnson and
Exemplary Autobiography,” Studies in
Eighteenth- Century Culture 29 (1999), 241-259
“Samuel Johnson and the Eighteenth-Century Reader,” Teaching the Eighteenth Century 7 (1999), 45-58
“The Language of the Libertines: Subversive Morality in The Man of Mode,” Studies in English Literature 30 (1990), 369-86
“‘Faultily Faultless’: The Structure of Tennyson’s Maud,” Victorian Poetry 27 (1989), 45-59
PUBLICATIONS—Reviews
Johnson Revisioned:
Looking Before and After, ed.
Philip Smallwood, SJSSC Newsletter
17 (2002)
Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property by Kevin Hart, Albion 33:2 (2001), 316-17
Straight Man by Richard Russo, Vanguard
19:1 (1998)
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
“Hester Lynch Piozzi: An
Annotated Bibliography,” Eighteenth-Century
Bibliography On Line, ed. Jack Lynch, at http://www.c18.rutgers.edu/biblio
Articles on
John Hawkins, Arthur Murphy, Baroness [Emmuska] Orczy, and Hester Lynch Piozzi,
The Continuum Encyclopedia of
British Literature, May 2003
Articles on Joseph
Harrington, The Last Known Address and Hilary Waugh, Sleep Long, My
Love in They Died in Vain: Overlooked, Underappreciated and Forgotten
Mystery Novels, ed. Jim Huang. The Crum Creek Press, 2002
“Oysters for Hodge, or,
Gender, Johnson’s Biographers, and the Cat,” Columbia University Faculty Seminar on Eighteenth-Century European
Culture, 4 November 1999
“Johnson’s Dictionary and the Love of Learning as
the Guide to Life,” Induction of Winthrop Scholars (Junior Phi Beta Kappa),
Connecticut College, 11 November 1997
“Outside the ‘Wooden O’:
Filming Shakespeare’s Histories,” Cornell College, 14 October 1997
“Walker Percy and Anne
Tyler: Contemporary American Novelists and the Image of the Tourist,” Annual
Meeting of the Connecticut Humanities Council, 26 April 1997
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS (last six
years)
“Fossil Fish: Preserving
Samuel Johnson within Hester Lynch Piozzi’s British Synonymy,”
Dictionary Society of North America, Durham, NC, May 2003
“Source, Inspiration,
Example, Antagonist: Johnson’s Role in Piozzi’s British Synonymy,”
American Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting, Colorado Springs, April 2002
“‘Rust of the Soul’: Johnson
on Reason, Sorrow and Condolence,” East Central American Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Cape May, NJ, October 2001
“‘Anecdotic Itch’: Making a
Mock of Life-Writing in Bozzy and Piozzi,”
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, New Orleans, April
2001
“The Marginal Life of Hester Lynch Piozzi,” East
Central American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Conference, Norfolk,
VA, October 2000
“Blind Beaks and Sleuthing
Bucks: Investigating the New Eighteenth-Century Detective,” Southeast American
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Savannah, March 2000
“‘Look, my Lord, it comes’:
The Approach of Death in the Life of
Johnson,” East Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Conference, Washington, PA, October 1999
“‘Throwing up a Straw’:
Order and Chaos in Hester Lynch Piozzi’s British
Synonymy,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference,
Milwaukee, March 1999
“Reading Whose Rambler? Gender, Genre and Johnson in the Modern Anthology,” Scenes of
Writing 1750-1850 Conference, Gregynog Hall, Newtown, Wales, U.K., July 1998
“Johnson’s Rambler and Exemplary Autobiography,”
Northeast American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Conference, Boston,
December 1997
“Urban Fantasies of Country
Life and Johnson’s Attack on Pastoral,” Mid-Western American Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Chicago, October 1997
PANELS ORGANIZED/CHAIRED (last six years)
“Women Writing
the Lives of Men,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference,
New Orleans, April 2001
“Marginalia
as a Site of Struggle,” Annual Meeting of the Group for Early Modern
Culture Studies, Newport, RI, November
1998
“Olaudah Equiano’s Creation
of Self in The Interesting Narrative,”
Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Boston,
MA, December 1997
WORK IN PROGRESS
Review article on
Eighteenth-Century Studies Teaching Anthologies (forthcoming in The Age of
Johnson, 2004)
Edition, with introduction
and notes: Hester Lynch Piozzi, Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
During the Last Twenty Years of his Life, with selections from Thraliana (proposal currently under review)
Article: “The Marginal Life of Hester Lynch Piozzi”
Article: “Oysters for Hodge, or, Gender, Johnson’s
Biographers, and the Cat”
Article: “Reading Whose Rambler? Gender, Genre and
Johnson in the Modern Anthology”
Book: Samuel Johnson in the Popular
Imagination (tentative title)
COURSES—designed and taught, since 1992:
“Samuel Johnson and the
Eighteenth-Century Reader” (seminar with book history component)
“Milton”
“Epic, Lyric and Satire in
Restoration and 18th-Century Poetry”
“Revolutions in British
Poetry, 1770-1815”
“Literature and Society in
the Eighteenth Century” (advanced culture-studies course)
“Restoration and
Eighteenth-Century British Drama” (graduate and undergraduate courses)
“Eighteenth-Century English
Novel”
“‘Chaste Pens and Scribbling
Ladies’: Representing Women in Early
Modern England”
“Shakespeare and the Modern
Imagination” (non-major lecture on Shakespeare and film)
“Shakespeare: The Late
Plays”
“Survey of British
Literature 1, 2”
“Introduction to Literary
Analysis”
“Travel in Literature”
(writing-intensive freshman seminar)
M.A. and Honors theses
supervised: “Swift’s Satire and Gulliver’s Travels” (BSC, 2003);
“Marriage and Romance in Paradise Lost”
(CC, 2001)
Undergraduate
tutorials and Individual Study courses (1994- ): Boswell and Reader-Response Theory; Katherine Mansfield; Romantic
Era British Women Novelists; Directing Hamlet;
Jane Austen
RELATED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Associate Editor of The Drood Review of Mystery (Carmel,
IN), since 1988
Seminar Series, Southern
Connecticut Library Council, 1994-2001:
“Contemporary American Memoirs,” Waterford
Public Library, Spring 2001
“Popular American Fiction
1935-1945,” Waterford Public Library, Spring 2001
“Contemporary Prize-Winning
Novels,” Waterford Public Library, Spring 2000
“The Reader, the Writer and
the Detective,” East Lyme Public Library, Niantic, Fall 1999
“Four Connecticut Writers,”
Jonathan Trumbull Library, Lebanon, Spring 1998
“The Evolution of the
Detective,” Babcock Public Library, Ashford, Summer 1997
“The Mystery Novel as a Reflection of its Times,” East Lyme Public Library, Niantic, Spring 1997, and Mystic & Noank Public Library, Fall 1994
Division of Arts and
Humanities Curriculum Committee, 2002-
Division of Arts and
Humanities Assessment Committee, 2002-
Chair, Humanities Task
Force, 2002-2003
Department of English,
British Literature Committee, 2001-
SERVICE—Connecticut College
Academic and Administrative
Procedures Committee: Chair, 1999-2001; member, 1998-1999
Phi Beta Kappa, Delta of Connecticut: President, 1999-2000; Vice President, 1997-1999 and 2000-2001; Membership Committee Chair, 1994-1996; Membership Committee, 1993-1994
Educational Planning
Committee, 1993-1995; chair of General Education subcommittee, 1993-1994
Ad-hoc Committee on Writing
Across the Curriculum, 1992-1995
Coordinator, Department of
English Honors Program, 1996-2000
Developed and conducted
annual workshop, “Thinking about Graduate School in English,” 1993-1999
Summer Reading Committee,
1992-1993
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies (and affiliate societies)
Society for the History of
Authorship, Reading and Publishing
Phi Beta Kappa
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