Loyola University Chicago

Department of English

Peter Shillingsburg

Professor Emeritus

 

About

Fields of scholarly interest in teaching and publication: textual studies (including bibliography, textual criticism, editorial theory and practice, and book history); and 19-20th Cent. English and American Lit., particularly William Makepeace Thackeray, but also Charles Dickens, George Eliot, William Gilmore Simms, Joyce Cary, A S Byatt, Virginia Woolf, J M Coetzee, and John Fowles.

Degrees

  • Ph.D., English Literature, 1970, University of South Carolina.
    Dissertation: The Text of Thackeray's Pendennis (a scholarly edition)

  • M.A., American Literature, 1967, University of South Carolina
    Thesis: The Use of Sources in Simms's Biography of Francis Marion

  • B.A., Secondary Education, English, 1966, University of South Carolina

Employment

  • Martin J. Svaglic Chair in Textual Studies, Loyola Univ. Chicago, 2008-2013.
  • Professor of English and Chairman of the Center for Textual Scholarship at DeMontfort Univ., Leicester, UK, 2003-2008.
  • Professor of English at the Univ. of North Texas, 1999-2003.
  • Visiting Prof., Univ. of New South Wales, Australian Defence Forces Academy, 1989.
  • Giles Distinguished Prof. Mississippi State Univ. 1970-1997.

Selected Publications

Books:

  • Scholarly Editing in the Computer Age. English Dept., Royal Military College, U of New South Wales, 1984. Rev. Ed. U Of Georgia Press, 1986. 3rd, Rev. Ed., U. Michigan Press, 1996.
  • Pegasus in Harness: Victorian Publishing and W. M. Thackeray. U Press of Virginia, 1992
  • Resisting Texts: Authority and Submission in Constructions of Meaning. U Michigan Press,  1998
  • William Makepeace Thackeray: A Literary Life. London: Palgrave, 2001.
  • From Gutenberg to Google: Electronic Representations of Literary Texts. Cambridge UP, 2006; Japanese translation, 2009; Italian translation pending
  • Textuality and Knowledge: Essays. Penn State University Press, 2017.
  • Textual Criticism as the Curation of Texts. A collection of essays pending translation into Czech.

Books Edited:

  • W. M. Thackeray, scholarly edition, 10 vols.
  • Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse. WoolfOnline.com

Articles in multiple journals on subjects in my field of interest.

Lectures delivered in 16 countries outside the USA and on all continents, save Antarctica.