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Matthew MacFarland '11
English and History
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undeclared major
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Dr. Evan R. Davis
Associate Professor of English
Morton Hall, 115
(434) 223-6245
edavis@hsc.edu
Education
B.A. Williams College 1989 M.A. Indiana University 1993 Ph.D. Indiana University 1999
Recent Courses at Rare Book School in Charlottesville: Analytical Bibliography: (2011); "Teaching the History of the Book" (2010); “Introduction to Descriptive Bibliography" (2008); "“The Stationers’ Company" (2006); “Printing, Publishing, and Consuming Texts in Britain and Its Empire, 1770-1919" (2002)
Teaching Interests
British Literature, especially 1700-1900
The English Novel
The History of Authorship and Book History
Jonathan Swift
Satire
Religion and Literature
Most Recent Publications
Robinson Crusoe, ed. Broadview Press: 2010
"Pope's Phantom Moore: Plagiarism and the Pseudonymous Imprint." Producing the Eighteenth-Century Book: Writers and Publishers in England, 1650-1800. Ed. Laura L. Runge and Pat Rogers. University of Delaware Press. 2010
"Philip Larkin: 'This Be the Verse.'" The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry, 1900 to the Present. New York: Facts on File, Ed. James Persoon and Robert R. Watson.
"The Injured Lady, the Deluded Man, and the Infamous Creature: Swift and the 1707 Act of Union." Anglo-Irish Identities, 1571-1845. Ed. Jill Bradbury and David Valone. Bucknell University Press, 2008
"A Just and Authentic Relation: Solitude, Sodomy, and Print Culture in the Narrative of the Marooned Dutchman." The Eighteenth-Century: Theory and Interpretation. Summer 2004
"Teaching in the Space of Blackboard." Co-authored with Sarah Hardy. Computers and Composition On-line. Spring 2003
Honors & Awards
Elliott Associate Professorship, 2008-2011
The Cabell Prize for Excellence in Teaching, 2011
The Bortz Award for Teaching with Technology, 2004
Clark Library/Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies Short-Term Fellowship, The William Andrews Clark Library, June 2005
American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Fellowship, The Newberry Library, November 2004
Mayers Fellowship, The Huntington Library, May-July 2004
NEH Summer Seminar Fellowship. "Anglo-Irish Identities, 1600-1800." Directed by Christopher Fox. Notre Dame Keough Center for Irish Studies. June-July 2003
Indiana University Graduate School Dissertation Year Fellowship, 1997-1998
Family
Mary BoodellRavenel Davis
Benjamin Davis