Professor Pat Rogers FBA

18th-century Britain, including literary, political, social and cultural history, with special concentrations in the history of the book and aspects of music, gardening and medicine

Fellow type: International Fellow
Year elected: 2008
Subjects: History, Literature
Sections: Early Modern Languages and Literatures to 1830
Website: http://english.usf.edu/faculty/progers/

Summary

Post: Professor Emeritus, University of South Florida Specialisms: 18th-century Britain, including literary, political, social and cultural history, with special concentrations in the history of the book and aspects of music, gardening and medicine Appointments: Distinguished University Professor and DeBartolo Professor in the Liberal Arts, University of South Florida 1986-2005 Other Institutions Fellow Sidney Sussex College (1964-1969) Professor of English University of Bangor (1973-1976) Professor of English University of Bristol (1977-1986) Visiting Fellow, Christ Church Oxford (1992) Visiting Professorial Fellow, School of Advanced Studies, University of London (2010) Honorary Visiting Professor of English University of Liverpool (2010-13) Website: http://english.usf.edu/faculty/progers/

Current post

DeBartolo Professor in the Liberal Arts, University of South Florida

Past appointments

University of Liverpool Honorary Visiting Professor of English

2013 -

Other Foreign Institutions Distinguished University Professor and DeBartolo Professor in the Liberal Arts, University of South Florida

1986 -

Other Foreign Institutions DeBartolo Professor in the Liberal Arts, University of South Florida

1986 -

University of Bristol Professor of English

1977 - 1986

University of Bangor Professor of English

1973 - 1976

Sidney Sussex College University of Cambridge Fellow

1964 - 1969

University of Cambridge Assistant Lecturer, University of Cambridge

1964 - 1969

Publications

Grub Street: Studies in a Subculture 1972

The Augustan Vision 1974

Robinson Crusoe

Johnson and Boswell: The Transit of Caledonia 1995

Pope and the Destiny of the Stuarts: History, Politics, and Mythology in the Age of Queen Anne 2005

Edmund Curll, Bookseller (with P. Baines) 2007

The Life and Times of Thomas, Lord Coningsby: The Whig Hangman and his Victims

Documenting Eighteenth-Century Satire: Pope, Swift, Gay, and Arbuthnot in Historical Context 2012

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Martin Butler FBA

Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature, especially the drama and theatre; Ben Jonson and his circle; the court masque; textual editing

Professor Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly FBA

Early modern German culture; European court culture, especially festivals, of the early modern period; the representation of women in German literature; writing by women in German.

Professor David Womersley FBA

English literature of the long eighteenth century, especially Gibbon, Swift, Burke and Johnson; sixteenth-century historiography and historical drama; the history of literary criticism; the theory and practice of textual editing

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