The Brackenridge Distinguished Visiting Professorship was inaugurated in 1987. With the generous support of the George W. Brackenridge Foundation, the University of Texas at San Antonio has been able to invite distinguished scholars in literature and humanities to engage members of the campus community and the city of San Antonio in public lectures, classroom visits, and faculty symposia as part of their week-long residencies.

PAST BR ACKENRIDGE DISTINGUISHED VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS AT UTSAWilliam ArrowsmithBoston University

Robert AudiUniversity of Notre Dame

Houston Baker, Jr.University of Pennsylvania

Jacques BarzunColumbia University

Sacvan BercovitchHarvard University

Derek BrewerCambridge University

David CrystalUniversity of Wales, Bangor

Sir Kenneth James DoverUniversity of St. Andrews,Stanford University

Joan FerranteColumbia University

John FisherUniversity of Tennessee

Shelley Fisher FishkinStanford University

Thomas FlintUniversity of Notre Dame

William L. FordMcMaster University

Sandra GilbertUniversity of California, Davis

Michael GrantCambridge University

Peter van InwagenUniversity of Notre Dame

Esther Jacobson-TepferUniversity of Oregon

R.W.B. LewisYale University

A.A. LongUniversity of California, Berkeley

James MalloryQueen’s University, Belfast

Richard MartinStanford University

Cherrie L. MoragaStanford University

Tulane University

Elaine RichardsonOhio State University

Ramón Saldívar Stanford University

Rosaura SánchezUniversity of California at San Diego

Thomas M. Scanlon, Jr.Harvard University

Charles SegalHarvard University

Alexander Shurvanov

Bulgaria

Werner SollorsHarvard University

Ilan StavansAmherst College

Victor VillanuevaWashington State University

Linda Wagner-MartinUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Linda ZagzebskiUniversity of Oklahoma

ABOUT ROBERT MARKLEYRobert Markley is W. D. and Sara E. Trowbridge Professor of English at the

Professor Markley was the Jackson Family Chair of British Literature at West Virginia University, and previously taught at the University of Washington, the Georgia Institute of Technology, Texas Tech University, and the University of Oklahoma. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Vassar College (AB) and the University

century studies, science studies, and the digital humanities. As the editor since the 1980s of the interdisciplinary journal, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Professor Markley has sought to broaden eighteenth-century studies by publishing ground-breaking articles that have used feminist, new historicist, poststructuralist, queer, diasporic, global, and posthumanist approaches to re-read and enlarge the canon of eighteenth-century literary culture.

Two-Edg'd Weapons: Style and Ideology in the Comedies of Etherege, Wycherley, and Congreve (Oxford UP, 1988) and Crises of Representation in Newtonian England, 1660-1740 (Cornell UP, 1993), examined the ways in which a variety of writers grappled with the problems of what they saw as the widespread corruption of language. Debates about imperfect languages, he demonstrated, were crucial to the idea of “modernity” as it emerged in the eighteenth century in both literature and science. In the 1990s, he began studying digital technologies, and, in contrast to many enthusiasts for cyberculture, tried to assess critically their cultural implications and theoretical underpinnings. His edited collection, Virtual Realities and Their Discontents (Johns Hopkins UP, 1996), included his essay on the values and assumptions of boundary mathematics, then the driving force behind the construction of virtual worlds.

LEC TURE PROGR AM

Tuesday, March 4, 2014"Defoe and the Imagined Ecologies of South America"6:30 - 8:30 p.m.University Room (BB 2.06.04)

Thursday, March 6, 2014"The Unsustainable Estate: Imagining Nature in Jane Austen's "10:00 - 11:30 a.m.University Room (BB 2.06.04)

next book, Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination (Duke UP, 2005) and to the forthcoming monograph, Kim Stanley Robinson in the University of Illinois Press series, Modern Masters of Science Fiction. His ongoing work in European-Asian relations led to several articles and a book, The Far East and the English Imagination, 1600-1730 (Cambridge UP, 2006). Both this work and Dying Planet were selected as Choice Outstanding Academic Books. In addition, Professor Markley co-edited Kierkegaard and Literature (U of Oklahoma P, 1984) and From Renaissance to Restoration: Metamorphoses of the Drama1984). He has held fellowships from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Society for

.seirarbiL ekcenieB dna ,kralC ,notgnitnuH eht dna ,llenroC ta seitinamuH ehtProfessor Markley is currently completing a book on climate and culture during the Little Ice Age (c. 1450-1800) that develops a comparative analysis of understanding climate in Britain, South America, and Southeast Asia.