Faculty Scholarship
DR. EVAN R. DAVIS, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH
 THE FOCUS of the Scholarship of Associate
Professor of English Evan R. Davis is 18th-century
British literature, and he has spent
much of the past two years ensconced in the
world of rare books and book history. He was
awarded a fellowship to spend the month of June
in 2005 in the Clark Library at the University
of California in Los Angeles, where he began
researching a fictitious 18th-century publisher
often associated with Alexander Pope.
That work led subsequently to several
conference presentations, one at the American
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Conference and the other at the Debartolo
Conference of Eighteenth-Century Studies; and
to an article entitled “Pope’s Phantom Moore:
Plagiarism and the Pseudonymous Imprint,”
soon to appear in The Eighteenth-Century Book:
New Perspectives on Writing and Publishing,
1650-1825.
Davis’s interest in book history has also
taken him twice to the Rare Book School at the
University of Virginia, fi rst for a course on the
Stationer’s Company and then for a course on
descriptive bibliography.
His interest in the technology of books has
led as well to an interest in technology and
pedagogy; in the past year he has attended
the 1st International HASTAC Conference:
Electronic Techtonics, Thinking at the Interface
at Duke University and a symposium called “Who Owns Culture: Intellectual Property
Rights and the Future of Cultural Expression”
at George Mason University.
Two of Davis’s essays will be appearing
in the near future: “Philip Larkin: ‘This Be
the Verse’” will be published online in The
Companion to Twentieth-Century British Poetry,
and “The Injured Lady, the Deluded Man, and
the Infamous Creature: Swift and the 1707 Act
of Union” will appear in a collection of essays,
Anglo-Irish Identities, 1571-1845.
Davis, who will be on leave in the spring,
began teaching at the College in 1998 and
was promoted to his present rank last spring.
He holds a bachelor’s degree from Williams
College, and a master’s and Ph.D. from Indiana
University.
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Hampden-Sydney College Faculty Scholarship 2005-2008
A report by the Office of the Dean of the Faculty
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