Education
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1999
M.A., Indiana University, 1993
B.A., Williams College, 1989
Teaching Interests
Book History
Satire
Contemporary American Graphic Narratives
British Literature, esp. 1700-1900
Rhetoric
Most Recent Publications
Teaching Modern British and American Satire. Co-edited with Nicholas Nace. MLA, 2019
Robinson Crusoe, ed. Broadview Press: 2010. (Modernized edition, 2014).
"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. 2009
"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
Books in Progress
Eighteenth-Century British Satire: An Anthology. Co-edited with Nicholas Nace. Under contract with Broadview Press.
Articles
Introduction, Teaching British and American Satire. Co-authored with Nicholas Nace. MLA, 2019
“Irony.” Teaching British and American Satire. Edited by Evan Davis and Nicholas Nace, MLA, 2019
“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. 2009
“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 Professorship, 2008-2011, 2019 to the present
Mayers Fellowship, The Huntington Library, 2014, 2015
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 Boodell
Ravenel Davis
Benjamin Davis