Personal Information

Education:
B.A., U. of Illinois (1972); A.M. (1973), Ph.D. (1977), Harvard University

Teaching and Research Interests:
Classical influences on English poetry; Restoration and 18th-Century English Literature; Samuel Johnson

Recent Publications:
Johnson, Samuel, Debates in Parliament, vols. 11-13 of The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson, ed. Thomas Kaminski and Benjamin Hoover, textual ed. O M Brack, Jr. (forthcoming).
 
"Neoclassicism," in A Companion to the Classical Tradition, ed. Craig Kallendorf. London: Blackwell, 2006. 57-71.

"Some Alien Qualities of Samuel Johnson's Art." Samuel Johnson in Historical Context. Ed. J. C. D. Clark. London: Palgrave, 2002. 222-38.

"Edmund Waller, English Precieux." Philological Quarterly 79 (2000): 19-43.

Work in Progress:
A study of classical influences on English poetry from Edmund Waller through Samuel Johnson

Offices Held:
Director, Pre-Doctoral Teaching Scholars Program, Graduate School